Many millions of dollars have been spent to "save" the Amazon. Yet this magnificent ecosystem -- the "greatest expression of life on Earth ... The Amazon basin, once likened to an Inland Sea ...

Every year, the Okavango River brings ... Okavango River Basin to allow for large-scale animal migrations, the aim of the partnership is to specifically safeguard the life-giving waterways through ...

”We have around 900 river dolphins and 500 Tucuxis (in the Tefe Lake) and in one week we have already lost around 120 animals between the two of them, which could represent 5% to 10% of the ...

People living along the dried-up rivers have had to carry drinking water on their shoulders Water levels in many of the rivers in the Amazon basin have ... The Madeira river, a major tributary ...

For several years, the Amazon River Basin (ARB) has been in a state of exceptional drought, driven by low rainfall and consistently high temperatures. The river basin contains the world's largest ...

The Amazon river is the largest drainage system in the world in terms of water volume and its drainage basin. The 6,400 kilometer (4,000 mile) river flows from the Andes Mountains of Peru ...

De Souza was showing some youngsters specimens of a wolf fish and an armored catfish—both of which are found in the waters of the Amazon River Basin. De Souza herself is still acclimating to the ...

Life for women among the ... nobody has been before in the Amazon rainforest. Ash Dykes and his team kayaked 380 miles from the source of the Coppename river to the sea. More than 62,000 sq ...

The plan is to travel down the Huallaga River, reach the Marañón ... this region of northwestern Peru are running dry as the Amazon Basin experiences its most severe drought in decades.

Elliott Oakley worked in the far reaches of the Amazon Rainforest in South America ... "Some of the largest piranas I have ever seen in my life!" De Souza said she saw, who also is an ...

See All Key Ideas Decades of artisanal and small-scale gold mining in the Tapajós River Basin have left a heavy environmental legacy in the Brazilian Amazon: rivers contaminated with mercury ...