Several Brazilian ministries have joined efforts in a desperate attempt to impede the gigantic Amazon basin and its fluvial network from continuing to lose water, result of a scorching drought and ...

Water levels in Brazil’s Amazon always rise and fall with its rainy and dry seasons, but the dry portion of this year has been much worse than usual. All of the major rivers in the Amazon basin ...

Researchers from the German Max Planck Institutes of Geoanthropology and Biology Tübingen use genomic data to study the ...

Researchers use genomic data to study the decline in genetic diversity in the Amazon Basin, particularly in Brazil Nut trees. The research uses genomic data to understand this keystone species' ...

Study reveals how human history—from Indigenous stewardship to colonization—shaped the genetic diversity of Brazil Nut trees ...

Genomic analyses reveal the vital role of human activity in the Amazonian species' genetic makeup.Researchers from the German ...

Brazil has the potential to generate 50 gigawatts ... announced that the era of building big hydroelectric dams in the Amazon basin, long criticized by environmentalists and indigenous groups, ...

In the 1960s Brazil’s military rulers decided to open up the Amazon Basin—it was, they argued, the nation’s destiny. Land speculators poured in, feeding a classic real estate bubble.

Join this exceptional journey exploring Brazil’s most celebrated ecological ... Travel up the Rio Negro, the least inhabited river in the Amazon river basin. Throughout the cruise, you will ...

New research suggests that the earliest dinosaurs may have originated in equatorial regions of Gondwana, encompassing the ...