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Veteran diver and photojournalist Thomas Peschak reflects on a multi-year expedition aimed at Amazon science and storytelling ...
Current distribution across the Amazon Basin of (a) fish species, (b) Arrau turtle, and (c) river dolphins analyzed by the study. Image courtesy of Caldas et al. (2023). “Today, if we look at ...
The Amazon Basin lost about 27,000 square kilometers of forest each year from 2001 to 2016. By 2021, about 17% of the basin ...
The Amazon is one of the planet’s last great wildernesses, stretching across nine countries in South America. It has been a ...
Amazon Express expedition leader West Hansen ... or is it the most distant point up the longest tributary in the river's drainage basin? The current internationally accepted definition is the ...
All of the major rivers in the Amazon basin are at critical levels, including the Madeira River, the Amazon River's longest tributary. The Negro River drains about 10 per cent of the Amazon basin ...
The dolphins, that are in danger of extinction, were brought ashore for blood tests and other examinations and returned to Lake Tefé in the Amazon basin as ... more than 200 river dolphins ...
Getty Images As climate change warms the Amazon basin, the rainforest may become drier, like the areas bordering the Boiling River (Credit: Getty Images) "I thought it was great," says Chris ...
The Mississippi River basin drains more than 40% of the continental ... How does it compare to the Amazon and Nile? Most lists of the world's longest rivers combine the Missouri and the ...