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 ...

Analysis of satellite imagery of the Brazilian Amazon, the Congo Basin and New Guinea helps to show that ‘secondary’ roads ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

where about one-third of all rainwater originates from the Amazon basin itself 2. The existing balance between the origin and fate of water is essential for the health of the rainforest in this ...

In Brazil, home to about 60 per cent of the Amazon rainforest, fossil fuel drilling and mining are prohibited in Indigenous ...