While the river remains bridge-free, it continues to serve as a vital artery for trade, transportation, and life in the ...

For millions of years, tree species have spread from the Amazon to Atlantic rainforests across a region that’s too arid for them to grow. How exactly they make this challenging journey has been ...

The Amazon river is the largest drainage system in the ... crossing South America before emptying into the Atlantic Ocean. However, according to a surprising find in 2006 and subsequent geological ...

River pirates and guerrilla rebels ... a Brazilian island in the Amazon that juts out into the Atlantic. They followed the coast, timing their progress with the tides. But crossing a swiftly ...

The river, recognized as the second largest river in the world by volume, spans an impressive 6,400 kilometers. In certain ...

the Amazon River. During full and new moons, a huge tide surges in from the Atlantic Ocean and reverses the flow of the mighty river, creating an enormous wave. Called the “pororoca,” this ...

The source (start) of the Amazon River is in the Andes Mountain range in Peru. It flows northwards through Brazil with its mouth taking water into the Atlantic Ocean. Piranhas have adapted to live ...

Riverside forests in Brazil have facilitated continuous tree migration between the Amazon and Atlantic rainforests. DNA ...

This model used data from the “Mercury Observatory” on the distribution and accumulation of the metal in the four basins of the Tapajós River (Pará, Mato Grosso, and Amazonas); the Xingu ...