As forests continue to be cleared and forested landscapes degraded by human activity, their loss can significantly affect the ...

The Amazon river is the largest drainage system in the world in terms of water volume and its drainage basin. The 6,400 ...

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 ...

French banking groups Credit Agricole, BNP Paribas and BPCE have been discreetly investing in the oil and gas industry ...

The other factor is fire. The Amazon basin, once likened to an Inland Sea by Alfred Russell Wallace, is becoming dryer. Huge areas of primary forest, once too wet to ever be at risk of fires ...

By Shanna Hanbury Mongabay’s new short documentary The Time of Water premiered Dec. 16 at the Barcelona Center for ...

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 ...

For a month, Conservation Ecologist Dr. Lesley De Souza and Environmental Social Scientist Dr. Elliott Oakley worked in the far reaches of the Amazon Rainforest in South America, specifically in ...

The Amazon and Congo Basin rainforests are two of Earth’s most vital ecosystems, yet they face threats that could forever ...