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 ...

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

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 ...

Sailing the Amazon River can take on different forms, depending on which cruise line you choose and what type of experience you desire. Larger oceangoing ships with lines like Holland America, Oceania ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

South America’s Amazon River Basin is currently undergoing a severe drought, with water levels in the river lower than they have been in the past 120 years. A boat travels through a section of the ...

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