"The groupβs members β #Bolivia, #Brazil, #Colombia, #Ecuador, #Guyana, #Peru, #Suriname and #Venezuela β signed a joint declaration in #Belem, at the mouth of the #AmazonRiver, laying out a nearly 10,000-word roadmap to promote #SustainableDevelopment, end #deforestation and fight the #OrganisedCrime that fuels it." #ClimateCrisis
#Amazon nations launch alliance to protect #rainforest at key summit | #Environment News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/8/9/amazon-nations-launch-alliance-to-protect-rainforest-at-key-summit
#environment #rainforest #amazon #climatecrisis #organisedcrime #deforestation #sustainabledevelopment #amazonriver #belem #venezuela #Suriname #peru #guyana #ecuador #colombia #brazil #bolivia
An #AmazonRiver plume stretches thousands of kilometres across the tropical Atlantic Ocean.
π°οΈ #Copernicus Sentinel-3, 19-06-2023
π· Full-size: https://www.flickr.com/photos/191444271@N08/52994079196/in/dateposted-public/
Image is about 525 kilometers wide.
Today I learned about giant Amazonian river otters and that they are not cute and playful like the river otters everyone thinks of.
Turns out they're cousins of the honey badger and they're just as crazy.
#otters #riverotters #amazonriver #honeybadger
Cool short blog post by @ewklemetti
Find out how we used sand (well, zircons really) in the Andes-Amazon Fan system like a time machine to explore past mountain building processes.
https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/sand-tells-us-the-history-of-mountains
#andes
#amazonriver
#geology
#mountains
#sand
#sediment
#tectonics
#andes #amazonriver #geology #mountains #sand #sediment #tectonics