Plastic. It floods the oceans, strangles marine life and sullies our streets. When burnt, it spits out toxic chemicals into the atmosphere in gargantuan quantities, and its petrochemical construction means it doesn't like to decompose. Yet it is a … [Read more...]
Huge Subterranean ‘River’ Found 4km Beneath the Amazon
The Amazon is seen by many as a far removed place, almost mythical in stature. Besides containing the largest and most biologically diverse rainforest in the world, its mighty river is of legendary status. Pumping out more volume of water than the … [Read more...]
Amazon Secrets Discovered Beneath ‘The Black River’
Within the kernel of the world's largest and most biologically diverse rainforest, lies the city of Manaus. Previously termed the 'City of the Forest', this Amazonian city, which sounds like it could be a German men's club, is today a booming … [Read more...]
British Chap Treks Length of the Amazon in Two Years
From deep within the recesses of adventure and lunacy, former British army captain Ed Stafford has braved numerous toxic perils to become the first known man to walk the entire length of the Amazon River. Armed with an internet satellite phone for … [Read more...]
Amazon Tribes Bushwhack Brazilian Power Plant
On the edge of a diminishing rainforest world, hundreds of impassioned Amazonian tribesmen have stormed a hydroelectric power plant in Brazil. Adorned in full war paint and armed with bows and arrows, 300 Indigenous protesters from six different … [Read more...]