Deep in northern Peru lies a remote city that serves as a gateway to the Amazon. Take a river cruise, explore natural ...

Amazon (River of Dreams), a 1993 song by jazz guitarist Artie Traum emblematic of the iconic river basin’s dire straits three ...

If the natural pulse of the rivers is significantly altered, life in the Amazon is disrupted and the system as a whole is imperilled” explains Juan Carlos Riveros, Leading Scientist for WWF’s Living ...

2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that’s a critical counterweight to climate change.

Amazon biome hurtles toward death spiral as deforestation jumps in 2020. ... An aerial view shows a river and a deforested plot of the Amazon near Porto Velho, Rondonia State, Brazil, August 14, ...

At its mouth, the Amazon discharges about 6,700km 3 yr-1 of freshwater into the Atlantic Ocean, about 20 per cent of global surface river flows. Deforestation: almost 20 per cent of the Amazon Biome – ...

A new report about the Amazon Basin's natural and human history, released Nov. 12 at the United Nations climate conference, COP26, in Glasgow, Scotland, points to potential solutions to prevent ...

The newly discovered Amazon River reef is under yet another big threat. Up to 125 portions of the river substrate were acquired by the petroleum industry for exploratory drilling in 2013.

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An area the size of Israel was deforested in the Amazon biome last year as destruction surged 21% in the region spanning nine countries that is home to the world's largest rainforest, according to ...

Amazon Conservation's first look at deforestation in the full year of 2020 shows that roughly 21,000 square kilometers (8,108 square miles) of old-growth forest was cut or burned down, about the ...