As oil companies push for drilling on the Amazon coast, an underwater war silences the ocean’s most vocal creatures.

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

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New images from the European Space Agency’s Biomass mission show how the satellite uses advanced radar to map flows of carbon ...

Dozens of pink river dolphins have been saved in Bolivia after become stranded a long way from the main waterway.

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

The Boiling River regularly reaches 86C – with drastic consequences for the surrounding rainforest.

Fossil fuel CO2 emissions are taking the world’s time-honored ecosystems, like the world-famous Amazon River, down onto their knees. The problem is greenhouse gases like CO2 and CH4 trap heat ...

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.

One of the Amazon River's main tributaries has dropped to its lowest level ever recorded, Brazil's geological service said Friday, reflecting a severe drought that has devastated the Amazon ...