Researchers examining the Amazon Basin discovered ancient river sediments beneath the Andes foothills containing marine ...

Scientists have identified more than two dozen previouslyunknown fish species in Peru and the Amazon Basin, uncovering a fascinating array of aquatic life. Among the discoveries are a blob-headed ...

The other factor is fire. The Amazon basin, once likened to an Inland Sea by Alfred Russell Wallace, is becoming dryer. Huge areas of primary forest, once too wet to ever be at risk of fires ...

Across countries in the Amazon Basin corruption remains a deeply entrenched phenomenon as society has a higher tolerance of fraudulent behavior. Corruption encompasses many types of behavior ...

James Cook University-led research has revealed secondary roads branching from major highways in tropical forests linked to ...

They are found in freshwater marshes and pools throughout the Amazon Basin, from Colombia to Brazil. Surinam horned frogs achieve their enormous girth by being generally indiscriminate about what ...

The impacts of the deforestation of the Amazon Basin include the following. The creation of mines, farms and roads, which causes deforestation, has also led to economic development. The money ...