The Amazon Basin is one of the most important natural regions on Earth. It plays a major role in supporting wildlife, regulating the climate, and providing freshwater. Do you know it extends over a ...

Alongside the extraordinary fluvial discharges and the intense tidal currents, vigorous currents induced by the wind and an active western boundary current make this area one of the most energetic ...

Paleontologists discovered a fossilized skull of a newly described species of giant freshwater dolphin in the Peruvian Amazon, which lived around 16 million years ago and is considered the ...

Five months after a major operation by federal forces, illegal mining dredges are back on the Madeira River in the Brazilian Amazon. The return of the floating structures shows the resilience of ...