the global commodity traders and logistical companies began to invest in transportation systems via the Amazon River. By 2013, approximately thirty per cent of the soy cultivated in central Mato ...

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 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.

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 ...

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 planned five-month-long expedition, due to set off in April 2024, aims to voyage the Amazon’s full length, using modern river-mapping ... electromobility transportation, and more,” he ...

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 ...

That harm is measurable. Since 1994, the Madeira Basin has endured more extreme floods and droughts than any other part of the Amazon. In 2024, the river reached its lowest level ever recorded.