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Ancient Amazon River rock carvings exposed by drought

October 24, 2023504 Views

Human faces sculpted into stone up to 2,000 years ago have appeared on a rocky outcropping along the Amazon River since water levels dropped to record lows in the region's worst drought in more than a century. Some rock carvings had been sighted before but now there is a greater variety that will help researchers establish their origins, archaeologist Jaime de Santana Oliveira said on Monday. A view of ancient stone carvings on a rocky point of the Amazon river that were exposed after water levels dropped to record lows during a drought in Manaus, Amazonas state, Brazil October 23, 2023. REUTERS/Suamy Beydoun One area shows smooth grooves in the rock thought to be where Indigenous inhabitants once sharpened their arrows and spears long before Europeans arrived. "The engravings...

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Amazon River falls to lowest in over a century amid Brazil drought

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October 17, 2023830 Views

The Amazon River fell to its lowest level in over a century on Monday at the heart of the Brazilian rainforest as a record drought upends the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and damages the jungle ecosystem. Rapidly drying tributaries to the mighty Amazon have left boats stranded, cutting off food and water supplies to remote villages, while high water temperatures are suspected of killing more than 100 endangered river dolphins. Boats and houseboats are seen stranded in a dry area of the Igarape do Taruma stream which flows into the Rio Negro river, as the water level at a major river port in Brazil's Amazon rainforest hit its lowest point in at least 121 years, in Manaus, Brazil, October 16. REUTERS/Bruno Kelly The port of Manaus, the region's most populous city, at th...

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Workers uncover eight mummies, pre-Inca objects while expanding gas network in Peru

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September 23, 20231059 Views

Some archaeologists describe Peru’s capital as an onion with many layers of history, others consider it a box of surprises. That’s what some gas line workers got when their digging uncovered eight pre-Inca funeral bales. “We are recovering those leaves of the lost history of Lima that is just hidden under the tracks and streets,” Jesus Bahamonde, an archaeologist at Calidda, the company that distributes natural gas in the city of 10 million people, said Friday. Archaeologists uncover bones and vessels discovered by city workers who were digging a natural gas line for the company Calidda in the district of Carabayllo on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, Friday, Sept. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia) He said the company’s excavation work to expand its system of gas lines over the last ...

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Largest lake in South America is drying up

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August 4, 2023930 Views

Unusual heat wave turns winter upside down in southern hemisphere The parched shoreline and shrinking depths of Lake Titicaca are prompting growing alarm that an ago-old way of life around South America's largest lake is slipping away as a brutal heat wave wreaks havoc on the southern hemisphere's winter. Like many places suffering deadly consequences of climate change, the sprawling freshwater lake nestled in the Andes mountains on Bolivia's border with Peru now features a water level approaching an all-time low. Juan Carlos Carratia watches the shore of Lake Titicaca, in the drought season, in Chua, Bolivia August 3, 2023. REUTERS/Claudia Morales Globally, July was the hottest month on record, as prolonged dry spells take an especially heavy toll on humans and animals alike....

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At Peru temple site, archaeologists explore 3,000-year-old ‘condor’s passageway’

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July 13, 2023902 Views

Archaeologists working in Peru have uncovered a 3,000-year-old sealed corridor dubbed "the condor's passageway" that likely leads to other chambers inside what was once a massive temple complex pertaining to the ancient Chavin culture. Located around 190 miles (306 km) northeast of Lima, the Chavin de Huantar archaeological site is among the culture's most important centers, thriving from around 1,500-550 B.C. FILE PHOTO: The archaeological site of Chavin de Huantar, which is a UNESCO World Heritage site, is seen some 155 miles (250 km) north of Lima July 18, 2008. A museum opened near the site with an exhibition of ceramic pieces and rock sculptures from a culture that flourished around 900 B.C. REUTERS/Enrique Castro-Mendivil The Chavin are well-known for their advanced art, of...

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Scientists discover duck-billed dinosaur roamed Chile 72 million years ago

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June 17, 20231003 Views

A duck-billed herbivorous dinosaur roamed the ancient and remote river plains of Patagonia in southern Chile some 72 million years ago, a new study revealed on Friday. Scientists have dubbed the dinosaur Gonkoken nanoi and say it weighed up to a metric ton and could grow to 4 meters (13.12 feet) in length according to the study published in Science Advances. A paleontologist checks fossilized bones of the 'Gonkoken nanoi', a newly identified duck-billed dinosaur, that inhabited the Chilean Patagonian area, at El valle del rio de las Chinas, near Torres del Paine, Magallanes and Antarctic region, Chile, in this undated handout photo obtained by Reuters on June 15, 2023. Universidad de Chile/ Handout via REUTERS In 2013, an expedition led by the Chilean Antarctic Institute (INACH) ...

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Archaeologists in Peru find 3,000 year-old mummy in Lima

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June 15, 2023829 Views

Peruvian archaeologists have discovered an approximately 3,000-year-old mummy in Lima, they said on Wednesday, the latest discovery in the Andean nation dating to pre-Hispanic times. Students from San Marcos University and researchers initially found remains of the mummy's hair and skull in a cotton bundle during excavation, before uncovering the rest of the mummy. An archaeologist works at the excavation site of a pre-Hispanic burial next to a mummy believed to be from the Manchay culture, which developed in the valleys of Lima between 1,500 and 1,000 BCE, in Lima, Peru, June 14, 2023. REUTERS/Anthony Marina The mummy was probably from the Manchay culture, which developed in the valleys of Lima between 1500 and 1000 BC, archaeologist Miguel Aguilar said, and was associated with ...

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Colombia’s ‘cocaine hippo’ population is bigger than previously thought

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June 7, 2023991 Views

The most comprehensive census yet reveals that there could be twice as many of the invasive animals than previous estimates indicated Colombia’s invasive hippo population is even larger than researchers had thought, according to the most thorough census of the animals conducted yet. Scientists were already concerned about the hippos — considered the largest invasive animal in the world — threatening native plants and animals in the country, and had been calling for drastic measures to reduce the population. The census results have only heightened that fear. A few years ago, researchers estimated how fast the animals were reproducing, to project that about 98 hippos were living along the country’s Magdalena River and its tributaries in 20201. But the new study, for which a research t...

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In South America’s remote Chaco, deforestation uproots natural rhythms

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May 15, 20231067 Views

In the vast Chaco forests of northern Argentina, Noole rests from the fierce sun in the scented shade of dark carob trees on a small farm where her family grows watermelons and potatoes to eat or sell at market. For Noole, an Indigenous Pilaga, and her brother Jose Rolando Fernandez, the trees set the natural rhythm of life, providing food, water and cool in this sparsely populated and remote corner of South America that is home to the continent’s second largest woodland after the Amazon. An aerial view shows a tree and cattle in a deforested area, near Las Lomitas, in Formosa, Argentina April 18, 2023. REUTERS/Agustin Marcarian But that habitat is facing growing pressures as trees are removed to make way for large-scale farms of soy and cattle to meet global food demand. An i...

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Chile’s firefighting goats protect a native forest from deadly blazes

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May 14, 2023862 Views

In the southern Chilean city of Santa Juana, hit hard by wildfires earlier this year, locals have a special taskforce helping fight blazes: a herd of goats. The goats have already saved the native forest of the Bosques de Chacay once, preventing the park from being consumed by February forest fires - fueled by heatwaves and a punishing drought - that left dozens dead, thousands injured and almost 440,000 hectares destroyed in south-central Chile. Rocio Cruces, founder of the "Buena Cabra" (Good Goat) project, an initiative that relies on goats to control dry pastures and other vegetation that fuel forest fires in the summer, feeds goats at her stable in a forest in Santa Juana, Chile, May 11, 2023. REUTERS/Juan Gonzalez "The park was surrounded by fires, but it ended up being the...