Amazon Creek flows from its headwater in Eugene’s south hills near Spencer Butte, through town to the Long Tom River and then ...

the Amazon River. The water flowing from these headwaters supplies much of the Amazon Basin, sustaining the world’s largest and most biodiverse rainforest. The filmmakers follow two Indigenous ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...