Pushing through the steaming jungle, a Venezuelan army major named Franz Antonio Rísquez Iribarren scrambled to the top of a high cliff in the Parima Mountains and proudly planted his flag at the ...

Local fishermen pick through vegetation caught in large green nets in effort to find small ornamental fish in a marsh area of the Orinoco River. Residents of the Orinoco Basin fish for sustenance as ...

MIAMI (CBSMiami) - Just in time for Mother's Day, Zoo Miami is ecstatic to welcome its newest residents. Eggs from an endangered Venezuelan Orinoco River crocodile began hatching. Zoo officials said ...

STUDY LOCATIONS using your 1:4,000,000 South America map and sample outline maps: Geography.About.com maps: South America A note: Matt Rosenberg, the geography guy at About.com is a part-timer with ...

STORY: Conservationists say there are fewer than 100 Orinoco crocodiles left in the wild. :: Capanaparo, Venezuela They live here, in the Orinoco River Basin, which covers most of Venezuela and spills ...

PUERTO CARREÑO, Colombia — The scientists had traveled down the muddy Orinoco River for hours, their single-engine boat hemmed in by rocks the size of small mountains, when the lead biologist let out ...

A destroyed car, after clashes allegedly involving the ELN in January in Venezuela's town of Barrancas del Orinoco A move by the ELN to expand its control along the banks of the Orinoco River in ...

NEW YORK, April 10 (Reuters) - Two ships ran aground in the Orinoco river in Venezuela in the past three days due to shallow water, shipping agents said Tuesday. Early on Tuesday, the small Panamax ...

We analyze the observed relationship between sea surface temperatures (SSTs) over the Atlantic Ocean and the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) in the Orinoco and Amazon basins. Monthly ...