The Amazon River pours 28 billion gallons of freshwater into the Atlantic Ocean every minute, making seawater less salty more than 100 miles offshore

The Amazon River carries twenty percent of Earth's freshwater to the Atlantic Ocean. Its vast drainage basin covers nearly ...
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Policy, drought and fires combine to affect biodiversity in the Amazon basin

Thomas W. Gillespie is in the Department of Geography and at the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at the University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA. Read ...