A UAE-coordinated law enforcement operation targeting environmental crime in the Amazon Basin has led to 94 arrests and the ...

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New images from ESA's Biomass satellite reveal forests, volcanoes, deserts and glaciers in striking detail, hinting at what's still to come.

The river gets its water from draining a huge 3.6 million km² area (a watershed) where the rain falls. This massive area is called the Congo Basin.

“Each lost rainy day brings deeper harm.” That harm is measurable. Since 1994, the Madeira Basin has endured more extreme floods and droughts than any other part of the Amazon. In 2024, the river ...

Jonas Mura, head of the Mura Indigenous people, says he lost peace when oil and gas companies knocked on his people’s door about a decade ago. For years, he has resisted fossil fuel drilling in Brazil ...

The Mississippi River is considered the most endangered in the U.S. due to uncertainty over the Federal Emergency Management Agency's future.

How big is the Mississippi River Basin? The Mississippi River basin encompasses parts of 31 states and two Canadian provinces and is over 1,245,000 square miles in size. The Mississippi meets with ...

The Congo’s drainage basin is also enormous, covering 3.4 million square kilometres - almost the size of India - and it carries a staggering 41,000 cubic metres of water per second into the ...