What have you done lately?

02/04/2011

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What have you done lately? Been on any nice holidays? Nailed that project at work? Run a marathon, even? Well we're willing to bet you haven't done anything as amazing as one Mr. Ed Stafford -- unless you happened to have walked the entire length of the Amazon river in the past few months, in which case, we take it all back.

We reported on his amazing walking adventure from the mountains of Peru to the river's end at the Atlantic Ocean in Brazil back in August last year, and now Discovery Channel TV show of his travels. 

Mynor Schult

www.AmazonRiverExpert.com 

Read more: http://www.asylum.co.uk/2011/02/02/ed-stafford-walking-the-amazon-living-legend-hero/#ixzz1D0k6vFtU
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Amazon Drought Worst in 47 Years

09/24/2010

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Amazon Drought Worst in 47 YearsSeptember 24, 2010Key transportation routes across the Amazon Basin are being severed by low water levels.

A parching drought in northern Brazil has caused the Amazon River to dwindle to its lowest level since 1963.

Seven remote towns that rely on the waterway as their link to the outside world have been cut off as their tributaries all but dried up.

Meteorologists say lack of rainfall, which is typical for this time of year, should continue for a few more weeks until the start of the rainy season.

They say that the unusually active Atlantic hurricane season has “tapped” moisture that would have otherwise provided rainfall for the Amazon region.

Residents who lived through the 1963 dry spell say that the current availability of mineral water and water trucks has helped limit the drought’s impact.


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