Banana trees buckle from the water's force. But while the river appears to consume the jungle, it also creates new routes from which to see it. The Amazon rises as much as 23 feet above its level ...

Amazon River: Have you ever wondered how the Amazon ... and burn agriculture in which they cleared the land by burning the trees and then used the land for farming. Developmental events like ...

Eventually, thousands of square miles of rainforest are flooded, creating a vast, tree-canopied sea. Into this seasonal sea, which remains for half the year, swims the Amazon river dolphin ...

MANAUS, Brazil — Dark clouds rumble over the tiny Amazon River community of Nossa ... A few stranded boats are tied to far-off trees. With the river and creek dry, he hasn't had much ...

Bacteria living in the Amazon River can digest woody materials shed by the surrounding rain forest by turning these pieces of tree bark and stems into carbon dioxide as they are washed down the ...

The Boiling River ... trees and it felt a little bit drier as well, the leaf litter was crunchier." Fortier recalls marvelling at how hot this stretch of the jungle was, even for the balmy Amazon.

Fossil fuel CO2 emissions are taking the world’s time-honored ecosystems, like the world-famous Amazon River, down onto their knees. The problem is greenhouse gases like CO2 and CH4 trap heat ...