The idea that the pre-Columbian Amazon was pristine has taken a nose-dive in recent years. Scientists have found several ...

More information: F. Gallo-Cardozo et al, A New Species of Piranha (Serrasalmus, Serrasalmidae) from the Upper Madeira River System, Amazon Basin, Bolivia, Journal of Ichthyology (2024). DOI: 10. ...

A new study led by researchers at University College London suggests that the earliest dinosaurs may have originated in ...

The other factor is fire. The Amazon basin, once likened to an Inland Sea by Alfred Russell Wallace, is becoming dryer. Huge areas of primary forest, once too wet to ever be at risk of fires ...

An assortment of creatures native to the Amazon Rainforest will soon make their homes at the Caldwell Zoo. This included the ...

French banking groups Credit Agricole, BNP Paribas and BPCE have been discreetly investing in the oil and gas industry accused of polluting the Amazon basin – despite their ecological pledges.

In the Amazon, specifically in the Madeira River region, particularly in Itacoatiara, large ports have operations focused on grain, container transport, and fuels destined for Manaus.

They are found in freshwater marshes and pools throughout the Amazon Basin, from Colombia to Brazil. Surinam horned frogs achieve their enormous girth by being generally indiscriminate about what ...