The unyielding vegetation in the Amazon basin also made map-making ... were taking out the village's roads along the river. Many used public transportation to commute to Quito, the country's ...

Mongabay has begun publishing a new edition of the book, “A Perfect Storm in the Amazon ... transportation options that minimize the need for roads. Unfortunately, most river port investments ...

The river has two hydroelectric dams, Jirau and Santo Antonio, and transportation is impacted on one of the main waterways for the north of Brazil. Across the Amazon region, communities are facing ...

The river has two hydroelectric dams, Jirau and Santo Antonio, and transportation is impacted on one of the main waterways for the north of Brazil. Across the Amazon region, communities are facing ...

“The Amazon Basin is facing ... killing dozens of river dolphins, choking cities with smoke for months and isolating thousands of people who depended on water transportation.

an independent Brazil-based research group that is working to detect and disrupt environmental crime in the Amazon Basin. After a grim search up and down the winding Itaquaí river of the Javari ...

The Amazon — the lush, tropical basin that holds the world’s biggest river, rainforest and a fifth of its fresh water — is running dry. The region is entering its fifth month of a drought ...

MANAUS, Oct 2 (Reuters) - (This Oct. 2 story has been refiled with corrected picture captions) The carcasses of 120 river dolphins have been found floating in a tributary of the Amazon River over ...

The remarkable biodiversity around the Napo River reflects its descent from the foothills of the Andes to the Amazon Basin. These ecosystems blend along its banks in a unique way, and this means ...

In Peru, National Geographic Explorer Jennifer Angel-Amaya monitors the toxin, used in some mining operations, and aims to establish mercury-free gold as a hot commodity. Jennifer Angel-Amaya ...