A transboundary Indigenous peoples’ alliance has been working in Ecuador and Peru to protect the Amazon Basin in the face of ...
The Madeira river, a major tributary to the Amazon ... role in worsening dry conditions in two main ways. Firstly, the Amazon basin is typically receiving less rainfall than it used to between ...
Researchers suggest that recycling gold could dramatically reduce harmful emissions, along with other solutions such as ...
By Liz Kimbrough “You’re engulfed in waves of steam and sweating buckets and there’s no cool water anywhere,” Kenneth Feeley, ...
Usually metres deep, right now the river is little more than a trickle. Such low water levels pose an existential threat to the estimated 30 million people that call the Amazon basin home ...
It is found throughout much of the Amazon and Orinoco river basins in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, and Venezuela. It is a relatively abundant freshwater cetacean with an estimated ...
People living in the Amazon basin rely on boats and ferries to cross the headwaters spanning from the Andes to the Atlantic ...
The river's width varies from 1 to 6.2 miles during the dry season, but expands to over 30 miles wide in some parts during the rainy season ...
The Amazon River basin is among the safe harbours for the rapidly disappearing species, with conservationists aiming to safeguard its remaining numbers. “Spending three weeks in the water with ...
This model used data from the “Mercury Observatory” on the distribution and accumulation of the metal in the four basins of the Tapajós River (Pará, Mato Grosso, and Amazonas); the Xingu ...