Article Archive for January 2013
The Amazon Rainforest
![The Amazon Rainforest Slash and burn agriculture](http://www.discover-peru.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Slash-and-burn-agriculture-150x150.jpg)
For centuries the Amazon rainforest has been cleared of plants as soon as humans come in contact with it, be it because of slash-and-burn farming, oil drilling, mining or cutting …
Facts about the Amazon River
![Facts about the Amazon River Amazon River and is tributaries](http://www.discover-peru.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Amazon-River-and-is-tributaries-150x150.jpg)
According to the U.S Geological Survey the length of Amazon River is 4,000 miles (6,437 km).
The Amazon River is the second longest river in the world after the Nile River …