An environmental education project promoted by the nonprofit Peabiru Institute gives students a chance to learn more about ...

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

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Charleston's Basin Flood Action Committee will help oversee projects outlined in the city's Basin Flood Action Plan. The strategy aims to "identify areas where we can get to work on large scale ...

An international group of scholars has recently discovered and proved that one civilization in the Amazon successfully developed an advanced agricultural system that allowed them to plant maize crops ...

The study highlights the urgent need to safeguard global tropical wetlands from human impact. Complex organisms, thousands of ...

The Amazon Basin, hosting the world’s largest rainforest, occupies about 40% of South America. This region is a complex mosaic of diverse ecosystems and vegetation types, including rainforests, ...

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 ...

BUTTE COUNTY, Calif. - The "Five-Mile Basin" in Chico’s Bidwell Park is increasingly becoming a major concern for city and county leaders, as sediment buildup poses a growing flood risk. The ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — Alexis Damancio Silva can't forget the hardship in his town of Puerto Narino in far southern Colombia last year when extreme drought nearly dried up the Amazon River.