The Odra, or Croatia's "Amazon river" (as it is often referred to in the local sense), is one of Europe's most important bird ...

Tracing the Amazon from source to sea, this video explores the river’s ancient origins, its irreplaceable ecosystems, and the communities and wildlife that depend on this massive waterway every day.

Sign up for the best picks from our travel, fashion and lifestyle writers. The skift is cutting through the water and as we make our way through the sludge-coloured ...

Fernando Araújo was riding his jet ski through Brazil's Rio Negro when he saw the small plane lose altitude and "crash into the river," he tells PEOPLE A man filmed the harrowing moment a small plane ...

TAPAUA, Brazil — Environmental agents from Brazil’s Chico Mendes Institute released giant Amazon River turtle hatchlings into the waters of the Abufari Biological Reserve in Tapaua, Amazonas state, as ...

Flowing across the heart of South America, the Amazon River nourishes the planet’s largest rainforest and countless species that depend on it. This video explores the river’s extraordinary geography ...

SAO PAULO/RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 20 (Reuters) - Brazil's environmental agency Ibama greenlit state-run oil company Petrobras (PETR3.SA), opens new tab to conduct exploratory research by drilling wells in ...

Brazil’s state-controlled oil major Petrobras has received long-awaited approval from environmental regulator Ibama to begin exploratory drilling in the Foz do Amazonas basin, a deepwater region near ...

When people talk about “the Amazon,” they generally mean the vast Amazon rainforest, not the river that gave the forest its name. (To test this, Google “the Amazon.” When I did that, the list of top ...

A new study by the Shedd Aquarium has found that the Chicago River system continues to recover from pollution, as evidenced by the fish species that have been spawning in the river system. A report on ...

PUERTO NARINO, Colombia (AP) — A flash of pink breaks the muddy surface of the Amazon River as scientists and veterinarians, waist-deep in the warm current, patiently work a mesh net around a pod of ...