The Amazon basin is the largest and most complex river system in the world The Amazon basin could suffer significant and irreversible damage if an extensive dam building programme goes ahead ...

Levels of droughts and flooding reached new extremes in 2024 and records may well be broken again over the coming year, a ...

Researchers suggest that recycling gold could dramatically reduce harmful emissions, along with other solutions such as ...

The Amazon Rainforest, where next year’s COP30 climate summit will be hosted, is reeling from two consecutive years of severe ...

Several Brazilian ministries have joined efforts in a desperate attempt to impede the gigantic Amazon basin and its fluvial ... Dredging a river entails removing sediments and settled residues ...

For several years, the Amazon River Basin (ARB) has been in a state of exceptional drought, driven by low rainfall and consistently high temperatures. The river basin contains the world's largest ...

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 ...

There are many indigenous communities living in the rainforest today. The Amazon River is the longest in South America, and the second longest river on Earth after the Nile in Africa. The source ...