While the Amazon River is world-renowned for its massive flow, a significant portion of its water evaporates before it can reach calm water reservoirs or the ocean. Anshul Yadav, a doctoral student in ...

In a first, a space mission led by NASA and France has tracked Earth's rivers swelling and shrinking from month to month over the course of a year and found significantly less of a swing than previous ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Explore the Amazon’s 4,000-mile journey, which crosses into nine different nations You can only really do the Amazon from the ...

It's eleven hundred tributaries drain the greatest river basin on the planet,(an area of more than two million square miles), ...

The Amazon River begins as capillaries of water trickling down the eastern slopes of the Andes. The waters flow, gathering ...

Alert in the Amazon: an invasive mussel advances up to 149 miles per year and threatens the great Amazon River.

Brazil bet big on a mega river dam using old data, but climate change is leaving its massive turbines high and dry.

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 dispute with ...

In the heart of the Amazon Basin, where the borders and cultures of Peru, Colombia and Brazil converge, a tiny, shape-shifting island has become the unlikely setting for a diplomatic tug of war. Santa ...

PUERTO NARINO – 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 river dolphins.

Unlike in later years, the lands bordering this stretch of the mighty river, down which Orellana and his men were headed, was densely populated, kingdoms made prosperous by elaborate techniques for ...

Through textiles, photography, and sound, González turns the Sean Kelly gallery into a living ecosystem, urging audiences to ...