Veteran diver and photojournalist Thomas Peschak reflects on a multi-year expedition aimed at Amazon science and storytelling ...

By Shanna Hanbury Brazil’s environmental agency, IBAMA, approved a key step that could soon allow Petrobras, the nation’s ...

The Amazon River is approximately 4,000 miles long and serves as the central vein of the Amazon Rainforest, the world's ...

As a punishing drought dries up stretches of the Amazon River, Brazil is resorting to dredging to try to keep food, medicine and people flowing along the watery superhighway. As a punishing ...

The region drained by the Amazon River, including the Amazon rainforest, is in the second year of a punishing drought. That has led to the lowest water levels in more than 100 years for the Amazon ...

MANAUS, Brazil — Dark clouds rumble over the tiny Amazon River community of Nossa Senhora do Livramento. After two years of devastating drought, you might think that residents in this parched ...

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The Boiling River, also known as the Shanay-timpishka, is part of a tributary in east-central Peru that connects to the mighty Amazon River. "It was just really evident to all of us that there was ...

Male Amazon river dolphins have been documented rolling upside down and firing a stream of urine into the air. As if that isn’t bizarre enough, other males will usually seek out the urine as it ...

The newly resurfaced footage, originally captured in March 2016, shows an Amazon river dolphin, also known as botos, urinating into the air in Brazil’s Tocantins River. In the video, the dolphin ...