Dust from the Sahara Desert, once a massive lake, travels across the Atlantic Ocean. This dust, rich in potassium and iron ...

Amazon (River of Dreams), a 1993 song by jazz guitarist Artie Traum emblematic of the iconic river basin’s dire straits three ...

River in world's largest rainforest on road to incredible recovery despite unprecedented threat: ... While monitoring stations forecast that the Amazon River basin in Brazil remains low, ...

The eight countries that comprise the Amazon River basin agreed on several initiatives to curtail deforestation in the world’s largest and most important rainforest. By Manuela Andreoni and Max ...

Bacteria living in the Amazon River can digest woody materials shed by the surrounding rain forest by turning these pieces of tree bark and stems into carbon dioxide as they are washed down the ...

Recently, scientists have discovered another rainforest resident deep within Brazil’s palm-dense Juruá River basin. The tiny frog (Ranitomeya aetherea) is only 15 mm long and features gorgeous ...

It covers nearly all of the Amazon River basin in South America. The Amazon is home to over 40,000 plant species, of which 16,000 are different types of trees. It is thought that there are nearly 400 ...

The river port in the Amazon rainforest's largest city of Manaus on Friday hit its lowest level since 1902, ... The Amazon basin, usually one of the wettest places on Earth, ...

The Boiling River regularly reaches 86C – with drastic consequences for the surrounding rainforest. When you drive towards Peru's Boiling River, along a bumpy, four-hour track through the ...

Fires in Brazil's Amazon Rainforest ... the Amazon river and will also host the United Nations COP30 climate change summit next year. Extremely low water levels in the Amazon basin were ...