The river pollution is connected to Belem's chaotic growth in the past decades, when Brazil experienced a massive migration from rural to urban areas. Until the 1970s, most of the Amazon ...

Amazon’s iconic pink river dolphins are facing a dramatic population decline, and scientists are rushing to uncover the ...

Beneath Brazil's Amazon rainforest, one of the planet's largest potassium reserves is fueling tensions between industrial ...

The newly resurfaced footage, originally captured in March 2016, shows an Amazon river dolphin, also known as botos, urinating into the air in Brazil’s Tocantins River. In the video, the dolphin ...

For the last few years, climate scientists, environmentalists and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva have been ...