Manaus

Police seize half a ton of cocaine

Police say they seized more than half a ton of cocaine hidden in the hold of a river barge near Brazil's Amazon jungle city of Manaus. Police say the 528 kilograms (1,200 pounds) of cocaine was produced in Peru and that its...

New Service - Port Everglades to Amazon

Bringer Lines, a Miami-based air and ocean shipping company, is beginning a new service from Port Everglades to the Amazon region of Brazil with Japanese cargo shipping company Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd , better known as “K”...

Carbon market could save Amazon

Manaus - Growing concern over climate change, and the potential of the carbon credit market, could give the Amazon forest a financial value rivalling the lucrative activities that are eating it away, Brazilian officials...

Shipping

Port Everglades said Thursday that a new shipping service has started that links the port in Broward County with Brazil's Amazon region, home to an industrial zone in Manaus. Miami-based Bringer Lines is launching the bi-weekly...

Dolphin Love Fetishes Not as Advertised

By Greg Miller ScienceNOW Daily News At dusk, Amazonian river dolphins, or botos, transform themselves into handsome Caucasian men and come ashore to seduce young women. Biologists from the Universidade Federal do Amazonas and...

Amazon: Up the Black River

Want to explore the Amazonian wilderness? Then sail on the Rio Negro, away from the mainstream, says Chris Moss. The Rio Negro is one of the Amazon's 17 great tributaries, flowing from its source in the Colombian Andes to meet...