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 ...

Dramatic underwater photos capture the elusive Amazonian pink dolphins red-handed.

A mass fish die-off in Brazil’s Amazon River region has killed an estimated 20-30 metric tons of fish and other aquatic animals, following one of the worst droughts in Amazonian history. On the night ...

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 ...

The waters of the Xingu River below the Belo Monte hydropower dam, in Brazil's Amazon, used to flood the river's forested islands during the rainy season, allowing fish to glide among the trees and ...

Some of the lakes have exceeded 40°C (104°F), a temperature not suitable for the river dolphins and fish.