The ongoing emergency response includes distributing safe water and other essential supplies, mobilizing health brigades and ...

Ancient Amazon people lived in ‘garden cities’, ate corn and raised ducks, archaeologists find - Human management of crops ...

People living along the dried-up rivers have had to carry drinking water on their shoulders Water levels in many of the rivers in the Amazon basin have reached their lowest on record amid a ...

Getty Images As climate change warms the Amazon basin, the rainforest may become drier, like the areas bordering the Boiling River (Credit: Getty Images) "I thought it was great," says Chris ...

Over the past decade or so, multidisciplinary research has transformed our understanding of the history of the Amazon Basin. Previously, the region was seen as largely unfavorable for food ...

The most damaging water-related disasters in 2024 included flash floods, river floods, droughts, tropical cyclones and ...

So far, it was thought that the isoprene in the Amazon basin degrades rapidly and does not reach higher atmospheric layers. This is because hydroxyl radicals form in the atmosphere close to the ...

Far from being untouched wilderness, the Amazon was shaped by pre-Columbian societies with a keen understanding of ecology.