The Numbers Tell An Incredible Story The Amazon basin houses over three million species in its rainforest ecosystem, with over 2,500 tree species creating and sustaining this vibrant environment. One ...

Legend has it that the Santiago river used to swallow the canoe of anyone trying to explore it. Now an indigenous community ...

Ocean rise and changes in the Amazon River are ruining the way of life in an archipelago close to where the Amazon River runs into the Atlantic. In Bailique, locals are experiencing longer periods of ...

Environmental agents from Brazil’s Chico Mendes Institute on Saturday released thousands of giant Amazon River turtle ...

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 ...

Environmental agents from Brazil’s Chico Mendes Institute released giant Amazon River turtle hatchlings into the waters of ...

SANTA ROSA, Peru (AP) — Rain or shine, every weekday from March to December, boat owner Salvador Mitidieri ferries students from the shore of the Amazon River in Brazil to the only primary school in ...

Billions of years ago, it rained on Mars. The water collected in valleys and rivers, filled and spilled over the rims of ...

TEFÉ, Brazil — Each morning for the last several weeks, researcher Miriam Marmontel has gazed out at Lake Tefé and the Amazon River, through a thick curtain of smoke from thousands of wildfires raging ...

Briton completes record breaking 4,000-mile trek through treacherous jungle Aug. 9, 2010— -- Contending with man-eating fish, giant snakes, disease, and Indians who threatened his life, a British ...