I can sit on an Italian beach when I’m old. For now, I look for adventure. I’ve traveled to Easter Island, deep into the rainforests of South America, trekked to see the gorillas in Rwanda, and swam ...

The world's mightiest waterway, the Amazon River, is threatened by the most diminutive of foes — a tiny mussel invading from China. Since hitching its way to South America in the early 1990s, the ...

A Colombian marine biologist is working to study and preserve the river dolphins (particularly Inia geoffrensis) that live in the Amazon river basin. Fernando Trujillo, a marine biologist, National ...

Project Mantis carries out research expeditions to the Amazon to record the often-overlooked fauna that emerge when night falls over the world’s largest rainforest. Its researchers focus on insects ...

More than a hundred dolphins have been found dead in the Brazilian Amazon amid an historic drought and record-high water temperatures that in places have exceeded 102 degrees Fahrenheit. The dead ...

LAKE TELE, Brazil (CNN Newsource/WKRC) - More than 100 red river dolphins have been found dead in the Brazilian Amazon over the last seven days. This is according to the Mamirauá Institute, which is a ...

Does the Amazon River Flow Backward? It’s a question that often sparks curiosity among explorers, scientists, and anyone fascinated by the mysteries of our planet. Although most major rivers on Earth ...

IN “Fundamental Problems relating to River Pollution” (NATURE, Mar. 26, p. 463), Mr. H. W. Harvey mentions the probable effect of the hydrogen ion concentration on river flora and fauna, and suggests ...