Legend has it that the Santiago river used to swallow the canoe of anyone trying to explore it. Now an indigenous community ...

The Numbers Tell An Incredible Story The Amazon basin houses over three million species in its rainforest ecosystem, with ...

The carcasses of around 200 river dolphins were floating across the seven-foot (two-meter) deep waters of Lake Tefé, as a ...

A mass fish die-off in Brazil’s Amazon River region has killed an estimated 20-30 metric tons of fish and other aquatic animals, following one of the worst droughts in Amazonian history. On the night ...

Dramatic underwater photos capture the elusive Amazonian pink dolphins red-handed.

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 ...

If you are looking for a real adventure, an exotic location, battles with big, strong, angry fish on a fly rod, the waters of the Amazon jungle are all of that and more. One question I get asked all ...

TEFÉ, Brazil — Each morning for the last several weeks, researcher Miriam Marmontel has gazed out at Lake Tefé and the Amazon River, through a thick curtain of smoke from thousands of wildfires raging ...

PUERTO NARINO, Colombia — A flash of pink breaks the muddy surface of the Amazon River as scientists and veterinarians, waist-deep in the warm current, patiently work a mesh net around a pod of river ...

A severe drought and heatwave turned Brazil's Lake Tefé into a deadly cauldron, with water reaching 41°C. Hundreds of endangered Amazon river dolphins ...

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