Brazilian police with support from Interpol have destroyed 277 dredges used in illegal gold mining along the Madeira River in ...

Assets worth over $64 million were seized and 94 people arrested as part of a multinational law enforcement operation targeting environmental crime in the Amazon Basin. The crackdown, coordinated by ...

Erin E. Ellis, Jeffrey E. Richey, Anthony K. Aufdenkampe, Alex V. Krusche, Paul D. Quay, Cleber Salimon, Hilandia Brandão da Cunha Limnology and Oceanography, Vol ...

MANAUS, Brazil (AP) — One of the Amazon River’s main tributaries has dropped to its lowest level ever recorded, Brazil’s geological service said Friday, reflecting a severe drought that has devastated ...

The last place you’d expect to see a dolphin is the Amazon basin, but astonishingly it’s home to three species, the Bolivian, Amazon and Araguaia river dolphins. The 8ft Araguaia was only discovered ...

Smoke choked Earth’s lungs last year. Of the 51,000 square kilometres (an area the size of Costa Rica) of mature tropical forest destroyed in Latin America in 2024, wildfires accounted for 60%, a ...

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 ...

In northern Bolivia, on the edge of the Amazon rainforest, lies a savannah called the Llanos de Moxos. This is the stamping-ground of Umberto Lombardo, of the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Assets worth over $64 million were seized and 94 people arrested as part of a multinational law enforcement operation targeting environmental crime in the Amazon Basin. The ...