In Manaus, a sprawling city of more than 2 million, the depth of the Rio Negro, a major branch of the Amazon River, reached ...

In the Eastern Amazon flooded forest, trees stay partly covered by water due to the rainy season that typically lasts from February to June. Photo is taken in early August when the water levels ...

Paddling through flooded forests offers a unique adventure into the heart of ecosystems where land and water meet. These ...

In northern Bolivia, on the edge of the Amazon rainforest, lies a savannah called ... Archaeologists once thought the Amazon basin’s soil would have been too poor to have sustained a large ...

A study published last year in the journal Science, for example, reported the discovery of two dozen ancient constructions ...

The river has flooded the rain forest, luring freshwater dolphins ... and large parts of South America, including the Amazon Basin, may have been flooded by shallow, more or less brackish water.

The impacts of the deforestation of the Amazon Basin include the following. The creation of mines, farms and roads, which causes deforestation, has also led to economic development. The money ...

"The microbial universe of the Amazon peatlands is vast in ... approximately 100,000 square kilometers, the basin includes vast tracts of flooded rainforest and swamps underlain by ancient peat.