Researchers examined 52 field studies from 2000 to 2025 that reported plastic contamination in the Amazon Basin's rivers, ...

A narrow skiff slides among massive rocky outcroppings on the Tocantins River, where the catfish and peacock bass throng in ...

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

Indigenous representatives from all nine Amazon Basin countries, gathered in the Peruvian capital Lima this week, pressed ...

In the fall of 2023, the Amazon Basin experienced one of the most severe droughts on record. Researchers, including Ayan Fleischmann from the Mamirauá Institute and Fabrice Papa from the IRD, ...

Peruvian indigenous groups equipped with remote sensing technology and satellite-based alerts have been helping to track and ...

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 ...

The Brazilian government, through the environmental regulator IBAMA, has granted Petrobras a license for exploratory oil drilling near the mouth of the Amazon River. Despite environmental and ...

Brazil’s state-run oil company Petrobras could begin producing oil and gas in the Foz do Amazonas basin within seven to eight years if major reserves are confirmed ...

Forest fires have consumed millions of hectares in the Amazon basin this year, due to global warming, an extreme two-year drought, and the illegal burning of forests and pastures. Helicopter used in ...

You can only really do the Amazon from the water. The world’s greatest river rises in Peru’s Andean uplands and ends at the ...