Brazil bet big on a mega river dam using old data, but climate change is leaving its massive turbines high and dry.

More than 100 dolphins were found dead in the Brazilian Amazon within the past week as water temperatures reached record highs. Researchers with the Mamirauá Institute for Sustainable Development, ...

The jungle town of Leticia provides Colombia’s only access to the Amazon River. But as the river changes course the town could soon be left high and dry and that’s fueling a border dispute with ...

PUERTO NARINO, Colombia (AP) — A flash of pink breaks the muddy surface of the Amazon River as scientists and veterinarians, waist-deep in the warm current, patiently work a mesh net around a pod of ...

The extreme drought sweeping across Brazil’s Amazon rainforest is already impacting hundreds of thousands of people and killing local wildlife. And with experts predicting the drought could last until ...

Monitoring river level fluctuations is also helping scientists understand the structure of river banks and river beds, which ...

Alongside the extraordinary fluvial discharges and the intense tidal currents, vigorous currents induced by the wind and an active western boundary current make this area one of the most energetic ...

In a first, a space mission led by NASA and France has tracked Earth's rivers swelling and shrinking from month to month over ...