An assortment of creatures native to the Amazon Rainforest will soon make their homes at the Caldwell Zoo. This included the ...

Alexis Damancio Silva can’t forget the hardship in his town of Puerto Narino in far southern Colombia last year when extreme ...

Archaeologists once thought the Amazon basin’s soil would have been too poor to have sustained a large human population before Europeans arrived. Dr Lombardo is head of a team proving them wrong.

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 ...

While monitoring stations forecast that the Amazon River basin in Brazil remains low, other areas are finding that the heavy rainfall is easing drought conditions. "It's very good to see that the ...

Male Amazon river dolphins have been documented rolling upside down and firing a stream of urine into the air. As if that isn’t bizarre enough, other males will usually seek out the urine as it ...

The Columbia River Basin grew from roughly 1.8 to 7.2 million people from 1930 to 2000. 24 It is predicted to reach approximately 10 million by 2030. 25 Dams in the basin have provided jobs ...

Deep in the heart of the Amazon, in the Mayantayacu region of Peru, there is the Shanay-timpishka river, where a person can be boiled alive. Its water temperature reaches up to 100 °C. The name of the ...

Researchers say they have made a startling discovery in the Amazon River. But their evidence wasn’t collected from the water—it could be seen from shore. After around 219 hours of observations ...