The Amazon basin houses over three million species in its rainforest ecosystem, with over 2,500 tree species creating and sustaining this vibrant environment. One in ten known species in the world ...

The Amazon Basin is one of the most important natural regions on Earth. It plays a major role in supporting wildlife, regulating the climate, and providing freshwater. Do you know it extends over a ...

Across Brazil’s Lower Tapajós region, Indigenous peoples, traditional communities, and civil-society allies are mobilizing to ...

When people talk about “the Amazon,” they generally mean the vast Amazon rainforest, not the river that gave the forest its name. (To test this, Google “the Amazon.” When I did that, the list of top ...

Alongside the extraordinary fluvial discharges and the intense tidal currents, vigorous currents induced by the wind and an active western boundary current make this area one of the most energetic ...

Every rainy season, the Cristalino River in the south of the Amazon basin bursts its banks, enabling travellers to kayak through a flooded forest. A kayak tour trailing through a sea of trees in the ...