Amazonia News

For the better part of the last half-century, the Amazonian forests have been plagued by deforestation from human farming activities, and now, new research suggests that farming without the use of fire, like the indigenous populations did in the Pre-Columbian times, could be the key ingredient in feeding people and managing sustainable land in the ... (more)

Francisco Ritta Bernardino, writer and president of Ariau Amazon Towers, and Leonide Principe, a photographer working in remote Amazonian locations in Brazil, are to be recognized for their contribution to Brazil's National Cultural Tourism.

Ronald Scott Golden, 74, St. Joseph, Missouri died Thursday, March 8, 2012 at LaVerna Village.

Recording "Les Filles du Crazy," an anthem that they'll later lip-synch onstage, half a dozen women - performers at the Crazy Horse, Paris's classy nudie cabaret - sing of themselves, "They are the soldiers of the erotic army." The military metaphor proves apt, as Frederick Wiseman's spellbinding documentary on the Crazy Horse, founded in 1951, ... (more)

Chapman American Legion Post #240 will host national vice commander David N. Voyles of Amazonia, Mo., on his three-day tour of Kansas with a visit at 9:45 a.m. Tuesday, March.