In June 2024, satellite images taken of the mighty Amazon River and its tributaries captured ... that last year's drought in ...

The Nazis wanted to set up a German bridgehead in the region by conquering a sizeable strip of the Amazon River basin and establish a "great South American Third Reich Empire". The plan ...

The Amazon basin is the largest and most complex river system in the world The Amazon basin could suffer significant and irreversible damage if an extensive dam building programme goes ahead ...

More than a hundred dolphins have been found dead in a tributary of Amazon river in Brazil this past week. Experts suspect the deaths may have been caused by severe drought and rising heat.

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 ...

River pirates and guerrilla rebels ... In December 2021, he finally climbed out of the Amazon basin, trading endless muck and mosquito bites for the high-and-dry altitude of the mighty Andes.

Seven South American countries have agreed measures to protect the Amazon river basin, amid global concern over massive fires in the world's largest tropical forest. Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia ...

Luis ACOSTA/AFP/AFP More than 420,000 children in the Amazon basin are being badly affected by a drought parching much of South America that is impacting water supplies and river transport ...