Gustavo Petro gave his Independence Day speech in the port of Leticia, across from a disputed enclave on the Amazon River, ...

Two former Royal Marines are raising £300k to undertake a record breaking trip down the Amazon – despite getting shot during their first attempt. John Bathgate, 37, and Ian ‘Yan’ Roberts, 36, are ...

A team at the University of Florida used drones and smart modeling to accurately count over 41,000 endangered turtles nesting ...

— Amazon (River of Dreams), a 1993 song by jazz guitarist Artie Traum emblematic of the iconic river basin’s dire straits three decades later Climate impact on the Amazon rainforest and the ...

Dust from the Sahara Desert, once a massive lake, travels across the Atlantic Ocean. This dust, rich in potassium and iron from dead diatoms, fertilizes the Amazon rainforest. The Amazon River then ...

Dust from the Sahara Desert, once a massive lake, travels across the Atlantic Ocean. This dust, rich in potassium and iron from dead diatoms, fertilizes the Amazon rainforest. The Amazon River ...

Aug. 9, 2010 -- Contending with man-eating fish, giant snakes, disease, and Indians who threatened his life, a British man has become the first person to walk the entire length of the world's ...