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

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

As the world’s attention turns to Belém, Brazil, for the 30th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30), expectations ...

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, ...

New data show resilience among the rainforest’s giants, though scientists warn that nutrient limits and rising heat could end ...

Brazil's bid to turn the mouth of the Amazon River into a new oil exploration frontier is facing institutional pushback from ...

Fieldwork in the Bolivian Amazon shows that Indigenous communities shaped and sustained complex productive wetlands for more ...

Brazil, which is hosting the 30th U.N. Climate Change Conference this month, wants to show the world it is a leader in ...

In September 2021, a multidisciplinary expedition explored one of the least-known regions of the Bolivian Amazon: the Great ...

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 ...

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

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