More information: Zhaowei Ding et al, Sustainable land and irrigation management to limit loss of hydropower in the Andes-Amazon headwaters, Communications Earth & Environment (2024). DOI ...

More than 2 billion people around the world live without access to safe drinkable water, as rivers, groundwater, lakes and ...

The Encyclopaedia Britannica gives the length of the Nile as 6,650km, to 6,400km for the Amazon, measuring the latter from the headwaters of the Apurimac river in southern Peru. In 2014 ...

Mercury concentrations would be lower in the headwaters of the rivers and would increase along the course of the river. Mercury accumulates in the food chain, especially in fish consumed by the ...