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

The Numbers Tell An Incredible Story The Amazon basin houses over three million species in its rainforest ecosystem, with ...

On the banks of the Guama River where the city of Belem presses up against the vast green Amazon, Brazil is pioneering an ...

Dinosaur footprints found in the Amazon rainforest offer rare evidence of Jurassic-era species once roaming this tropical ...

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Thousands of Amazonian land defenders, both Indigenous people and their allies, have traveled ...

Learn why the Amazon is critical for our planet and how WWF is working to protect its forests, rivers, and wildlife from growing threats.

When people talk about “the Amazon,” they generally mean the vast Amazon rainforest, not the river that gave the forest its name. (To test this, Google “the Amazon.” When I did that, the list of top ...

MANAUS, Brazil (AP) — 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 ...

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 and ...

MANAUS, Brazil (Reuters) -The river port in the Amazon rainforest's largest city of Manaus on Friday hit its lowest level since 1902, as a drought drains waterways and snarls transport of grain ...

Below-average rainfall - even through the rainy season - has plagued the Amazon and much of South America since last year, also feeding the worst wildfires in more than a decade in Brazil and Bolivia.