The Xambioá Bridge is set to become the longest bridge over a river in Brazil, connecting Tocantins and Pará across the mighty Araguaia River. Stretching 1,727 meters and costing over 200 million ...

“This one will be in the Amazon.” An official project map shows a straight line dividing a green area through the city’s outskirts. This protected area is slightly larger than Manhattan. It was ...

AA Michel, wrote in his seminal work, The Indus Rivers: A Study of the Effects of Partition: “As in most subhumid regions of the earth, water in the Indus Basin is more valuable than land.

In 1955, a young charcoal burner fell ill after spending two weeks working and sleeping in the forest near the Oropouche River in Trinidad ... most occurring in the Amazon basin.

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 ...

As a punishing drought dries up stretches of the Amazon River, Brazil is resorting to ... to reach nearby urban centers to cast ballots. Transportation chaos has also hit the major international ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Madeira Basin has the most diverse fish life in the Amazon River Basin with 1,406 species catalogued, but human interference and the climate crisis are provoking a significant decline in fish ...

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 ...

The Amazon basin was once home to freshwater dolphins that grew up to 3.5 metres long – making them the largest river dolphins known to science. Researchers made the surprise discovery during a ...