Every river has a starting point called a ‘source’, most are on mountains ... at a whopping 6650 kilometres! The Amazon river is the second longest in the world but the largest by the amount ...

Amazon Express expedition leader West Hansen paddles the Mantaro River, a possible source of the Amazon. Radius Images / Alamy But whether geographers accept the claim of Mantaro as the Amazon's ...

The Amazon has the world's largest river basin and is the source of one fifth of all free flowing fresh water on Earth. The Amazon rain forests are the planet's largest and home to one-tenth of ...

Quick: what’s the longest river in the world? The Amazon River carries four times as much water into the ocean as any other river does, but for most of the last century, the Nile was measured as ...

A British explorer has discovered the source of an uncharted Amazon river - despite being stalked by jaguars and ravaged by insects. Ash Dykes, 33, and his fellow adventurers Jacob Hudson ...

In today’s modern age, it might be fair to assume that science has decisively answered some of the bigger questions regarding the natural world – or at least those dependent upon sheer ...

Watch as a British explorer locates the source of an uncharted Amazon river, after battling 300 ticks and army ants, goliath tarantulas (the world’s largest spider), snakes, alligators and even ...