Amazonia
Americannoun
noun
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"Sixteen million years ago, the Peruvian Amazonia looked very different from what it is today," says lead author Aldo Benites-Palomino from the Department of Paleontology at UZH.
From Science Daily • Mar. 20, 2024
Amazonia remains “the one vast location where hidden archaeological wonders could yet lie,” he said.
From New York Times • Jan. 23, 2024
Early in 2024, Bufalino will kickstart the first cellulose lab in the Amazon, at the Federal Rural University of Amazonia, in Belém.
From National Geographic • Dec. 14, 2023
Amazonia Mia, an environmental project from USAID, has changed locations for two or three projects after communities warned of security concerns in areas where they were first planned, group director Roberto Gomez told Reuters.
From Reuters • Nov. 11, 2023
Throughout Amazonia, farmers prize terra preta for its great productivity; some have worked it for years with minimal fertilization.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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