Since rivers flow down into the ocean, why don't the oceans ever overflow? asks a reader. From space, rivers look like running faucets, flowing into the sea. The 4,000-mile-long Amazon River pours ...

The Amazon River Flows Backwards, ... The 6,400 kilometer (4,000 mile) river flows from the Andes Mountains of Peru, crossing South America before emptying into the Atlantic Ocean.

The Amazon, Nile and Mississippi ... At the time, it was generally thought that groundwater flow into the ocean was insignificant, maybe 3 percent to 5 percent of river flow, Moore says.

The Amazon River flows for more than 4,100 miles (6,600 km); ... 55 percent is digested by bacteria in the river system, and 5 percent is washed into the ocean, ...

South America's winding Amazon River flows in an easterly direction across the continent, dumping water into the Atlantic Ocean. But in eons past, it flowed from east-to-west and, for a time, in ...

The bulk of Amazon, which accounts for about one-fifth of the world's total river flow, flows through tropical rainforest. The river merges in to the Atlantic Ocean in a broad estuary about 150 ...