Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is defending oil exploration near the mouth of the Amazon River as a way to ...

The Amazon river originates in the Andes mountains of Peru, traversing its way through Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Bolivia, and Brazil before emptying into the Atlantic Ocean. The Amazon ...

A new study observed Amazon river dolphins for 218.9 hours and saw males spurt urine into the air 36 times—proof that the ...

The Madeira River is the largest tributary flowing into the Amazon River and is home to many ... not high enough to exceed the limits set by Brazil's authorities, but still high enough to be ...

See All Key Ideas In 2021, an army of dredges equipped to churn up the riverbed in search of gold invaded the largest tributary of the Amazon River in Brazil. The structures lined up like walls ...