The Amazon River carries twenty percent of Earth's freshwater to the Atlantic Ocean. Its vast drainage basin covers nearly forty percent of South America's landmass. Rainfall and glacial melt from the ...

The Amazon River Basin is the largest drainage basin on the planet, covering an area almost the size of the contiguous United States as it sprawls across nine nations and many Indigenous territories.

Have you ever wondered what secrets the Amazon Basin holds beneath its murky waters? I'm Flavio Gallo Cardozo, a biologist from Bolivia, and I'm excited to share with you the journey of discovering a ...

Major rivers across the Amazon region are experiencing an alarming decline in water levels because of effects from the El Niño phenomenon.

They account for 15% of all known species worldwide – about 15 percent of all known species in the world. Approximately ...

The Madeira Basin has the most diverse fish life in the Amazon River Basin with 1,406 species catalogued, but human interference and the climate crisis are provoking a significant decline in fish ...

A major geographical wonder in South America, the Amazon River flows some 4,000 miles from Peru to Brazil's Atlantic coast, making it the second-longest river in the world. Amazon River cruises ...

When people talk about “the Amazon,” they generally mean the vast Amazon rainforest, not the river that gave the forest its name. (To test this, Google “the Amazon.” When I did that, the list of top ...

For centuries, explorers who went looking for lost cities in the Amazon rainforest either turned back empty-handed or ...