The Amazon basin is the vast drainage area of the Amazon River in South America. It spans dense rainforest and wetlands across several countries. It holds immense biodiversity and helps regulate global climate.
Around this time – “I just don’t think my life was that full,” says Nick – the brothers began competing in “crazy” ultramarathons in places such as the Arctic, the Amazon basin and the Namibian desert. Source: Internet
Environment - current issues deforestation ; soil erosion ; desertification ; water pollution; pollution from oil production wastes in ecologically sensitive areas of the Amazon Basin and Galapagos Islands. Source: Internet
Colombia has four main drainage systems: the Pacific drain, the Caribbean drain, the Orinoco Basin and the Amazon Basin. Source: Internet
In the north, the Guiana Highlands form a major drainage divide, separating rivers that flow south into the Amazon Basin from rivers that empty into the Orinoco River system, in Venezuela, to the north. Source: Internet
Several public interest groups, including the Coordinating Body of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon Basin (COICA) and the Coalition for Amazonian Peoples and Their Environment (Amazon Coalition) objected. Source: Internet
President Lula also agreed to allow Peru access to two surveillance systems which Brazil had developed in the Amazon Basin to target legal and illegal activity. Source: Internet