By Liz Kimbrough “You’re engulfed in waves of steam and sweating buckets and there’s no cool water anywhere,” Kenneth Feeley, ...

"It was so magical," says Kullberg, remembering the first time she saw it with her own eyes. The Boiling River, also known as the Shanay-timpishka or La Bomba, is part of a tributary in east-central ...

The Amazon rainforest staggered through another difficult year in 2024. A second year of record drought contributed to ...

People living in the Amazon basin rely on boats and ferries to cross the headwaters spanning from the Andes to the Atlantic ...

The Amazon River and its tributaries ... Some relief has reached the region’s residents as the drought begins to ease. Water levels are now rising, but 16 of the 18 monitoring stations across ...

Climate change has brought record-breaking heat this year, and with it extreme weather, from hurricanes to month-long ...

The water needs to rise so Magno can get back ... Banner image: A pink river dolphin is found dead in an Amazon river. Image provided by Sea Shepherd Brazil.

The river's width varies from 1 to 6.2 miles during the dry season, but expands to over 30 miles wide in some parts during the rainy season ...

Jaguars in the rain forest, piranha in the water and armed drug ... to walk the length of the Amazon entirely under his own power, the first to travel the river’s length against the flow ...

(via PBS Eons) What did life look like when the Amazon watershed flowed backwards? How did its direction shape the evolution of life around it? And what force could have possibly been strong enough to ...