The Amazon basin houses over three million species in its rainforest ecosystem, with over 2,500 tree species creating and sustaining this vibrant environment. One in ten known species in the world ...

The launch of the Tropical Forests Forever Facility (TFFF) at the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil underscores how the Amazon Forest can be part of the climate solution. There’s another Amazon, ...

Aquiles Wiles Piranga Cruz, a member of the Koreguaje peoples in Colombia’s Caquetá region, has spent his life listening to rivers. His words reflect a deep, ancestral understanding shared by the more ...

The Amazon River Basin is the largest drainage basin on the planet, covering an area almost the size of the contiguous United States as it sprawls across nine nations and many Indigenous territories.

WWF report highlights dangers posed by mercury to people and nature across the Amazon river basin Alongside the all-too-visible deforestation, the Amazon is facing an invisible but increasing threat ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A planned shipping waterway on the Tapajós River, a major tributary of the Amazon, may disrupt the sophisticated social communication systems used ...

LETICIA, Colombia — The jungle town of Leticia provides Colombia's only access to the Amazon River. But as the river changes course the town could soon be left high and dry and that's fueling a border ...