A UAE-coordinated law enforcement operation targeting environmental crime in the Amazon Basin has led to 94 arrests and the ...

The Amazon river is undoubtedly one of the world’s most significant water bodies. Apart from being the world’s largest, there are many other facts about this massive water body that are both ...

The Amazon River basin, home of one-fifth of all the free-flowing fresh water on Earth and the heart of the rain forest sometimes called the lungs of the world, is under threat from development.

Get facts, photos, and travel tips for the Central Amazon Conservation Complex, a World Heritage site in Brazil, from National Geographic.

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 ...

New Agreement Will Help Protect the Amazon Basin Earth’s largest tropical rainforest just got a slew of new allies . Erin Blakemore - Correspondent. June 16, 2016. Get our newsletter!

Hydropower is the dominant source of energy in the Amazon region, the world's largest river basin and a hotspot for future hydropower development. However, a new study warns that in the coming ...

First basin-wide analysis shows that there are about 390 billion trees belonging to 16,000 species in the Amazon Basin Latest U.S.

More than a hundred hydropower dams have already been built in the Amazon basin and numerous proposals for further dam constructions are under consideration. The accumulated negative environmental ...