The Amazon River is showing signs of recovery as many areas refill. The river was recently threatened by unprecedented fires, droughts, and deforestation, but incoming heavy rainfall could bring the ...

The Cross River State government has been called upon to reintroduce and enforce total ban on deforestation and illegal mining in the state. Environmentalists made the call in Calabar, the state ...

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon dropped by 7% in 2024 compared to 2023, according to an analysis by Imazon, a Brazil-based organization that uses satellite imagery to monitor changes in the ...

Deep in the heart of the Peruvian Amazon lies a river so hot it can boil anything that falls into it. This natural wonder, ...

With Donald Trump settling back into the White House, advocates for the Amazon worry about what his second term will mean for ...

The Amazon River is showing signs of recovery as many areas refill. The river was recently threatened by unprecedented fires, droughts, and deforestation, but incoming heavy rainfall could bring ...

Researchers say they have made a startling discovery in the Amazon River. But their evidence wasn’t collected from the water—it could be seen from shore. After around 219 hours of observations ...

S tudents in the Human Rights Study Project at the University of Virginia School of Law spent a week of their winter break in ...

Nearly a quarter of animals living in rivers, lakes and other freshwater sources are threatened with extinction, according to ...

In South America, the vast Amazon River ecosystem also faces threats from deforestation, wildfires and illegal gold mining, Charvet said. Illegal fires to clear forest result in waves of ash ...