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 ...

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

The launch of the Tropical Forests Forever Facility (TFFF) at the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil underscores how the Amazon Forest can be part of the climate solution. There’s another Amazon, ...

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 ...

The Amazon basin contains the world's largest rain forest, famous for its rich biodiversity and importance in the world's oxygen and carbon cycles. It also has an outsized influence on water cycles in ...

Astronaut Don Pettit has once again turned his lens toward Earth, this time capturing a mesmerising view of the Amazon River basin from space. While aboard his mission, Pettit photographed the world's ...

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A new study examines the migratory movements of jaguars, river dolphins, and other species The Amazon river basin encompasses more than one-third of the South American continent, and the river itself ...

Funding: This study was funded by the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Amazonas (FAPEAM Grant process n° 01.02.016301.03252/2021-67 from 007/2021 BIODIVERSA to A.P. Lima). ATM received a ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The Madeira River, the largest tributary of the Amazon, has been losing water flow over the last 20 years while facing severe droughts. The water ...