The health of the Amazon forest and river are intertwined. By storing carbon, the forest can be a key part of climate solutions but plans for expanding hydropower could undermine that climate solution ...

A newly found tiny Amazon fish features a unique organ between its fins, challenging assumptions about miniaturized aquatic ...

Legend has it that the Santiago river used to swallow the canoe of anyone trying to explore it. Now an indigenous community is discovering surprising species in its waters. We stepped into the wooden ...

Five out of 10 lakes in the central Amazon had daytime temperatures over 37° Celsius, (98.6 Fahrenheit) during the region’s 2023 extreme heat wave, a recent study found. One of the most well-known ...

Throughout my life, the Amazon had distinct dry and rainy seasons. But recently, the weather has gone completely crazy. It ...

O iapoque is a sleepy town on the edge of the Amazon basin in Brazil’s northernmost tip. On weekdays fishermen haul their ...

Pure Amazon is just the second new vessel to set sail in Peru's Pacaya-Samiria National Reserve in more than a decade. There ...

Today I'd like to share some tips and techniques on how to use spinners in river systems, to hopefully give you the advantage ...

The Congo River, the world's deepest, flows through six West-Central African nations, forming a vast basin supporting rich biodiversity and 75 million people. This vital river, which crosses the ...

Indigenous protesters at UN climate talks in Brazil have zeroed in on a major grievance: A planned railway that would stretch almost the distance from London to Berlin and cut through the Amazon ...

On the banks of the Pastaza River, in Peru’s northern Datem del Marañón province, Kietre Gonzales remembers just how close his childhood home was to the aguajales, the swampy palm forests so common in ...