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Hidden Ocean Beneath the Amazon

Suhail Ahmed

  The Amazon looks like a world of rivers and rain, but the real surprise is what hums below: a slow, sprawling mass of freshwater quietly moving through sandstones, floodplain sands, and ancient valleys. For years, scientists suspected that groundwater kept trees green long after the last storm, but new basin-scale analyses and field studies ...