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 ...

Veteran diver and photojournalist Thomas Peschak reflects on a multi-year expedition aimed at Amazon science and storytelling ...

the Mississippi River is the third-largest river basin in the world, only outranked by the Amazon and Congo River basins. The Mississippi River basin collects water from 31 states and its ...

The Amazon Basin lost about 27,000 square kilometers of forest each year from 2001 to 2016. By 2021, about 17% of the basin had been deforested. Changes to forest cover can affect ...

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 ...

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 is one of the planet’s last great wildernesses, stretching across nine countries in South America. It has been a ...

including the Coordinator of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon River Basin, used forest coverage data to map how much of the Amazon was lost between 1985 and 2020 and also looked at forest ...

The Amazon River basin is experiencing an unprecedented drought, with water levels plummeting to historic lows across the region. This environmental crisis is affecting navigation, wildlife ...