- Amazon River
- Information on the Amazon River, with map, fact file, and image gallery.
- Amazon Watch
- Working to defend the environment and rights of the indigenous peoples of the Amazon basin. With press releases, news clips, and reports.
- Biological Diversity of the Guiana Shield
- Field-oriented program of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution to study, document and preserve the biological diversity of the Guiana Shield region.
- Brazil Energy Profile
- Features a country analysis brief, map, data and statistics produced by the US Energy Information Administration.
- Guiana Shield Media Project
- Environmental media project with a focus on the Guiana Shield region of South America, stretching from northeastern Brazil, through French Guiana, Suriname, Guyana, Venezuela and eastern Colombia, up to the Andes.
- Into the Depths of the Amazon
- Offers information on the Amazon, including history, climate, flora and fauna, culture, pollution, and deforestation.
- Matamata
- Article on the Chelus fimbriatus. By William H. Espenshade, III.
- Matamata Turtles
- Article on the turtle that inhabits muddy, sometimes stagnant, shallow pools and streams in northern South America. Written by David T. Kirkpatrick.
- Pilcomayo River Basin Study: Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay
- Case study to develop a multinational river basin plan for the multipurpose use of the Pilcomayo (Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay).
- South America Earthquake Map
- Traces earthquakes in South America in the last 14 days.
- Transport and Fate of Heavy Metals Within the Pilcomayo River Basin, Bolivia
- Study on the environmental effects of mining in Rio Pilcomayo.
- Venezuela Energy Profile
- Features a country analysis brief, map, data and statistics produced by the US Energy Information Administration.
- Web Earthquakes: South America
- Provides map showing seismicity in South America. From the U.S. Geological Survey National Earthquake Information Center.
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