By Fernanda Wenzel In 2021,an army of dredges equipped to churn up the riverbed in search of gold invaded the largest ...

The Amazon river is the largest drainage system in the world in terms of water volume and its drainage basin. The 6,400 kilometer (4,000 mile) river flows from the Andes Mountains of Peru ...

In 2024, 69% of municipalities in the Amazon recorded more intense drought levels than in 2023. In the Madeira River, the levels were so low that the Geological Survey had to install a new ruler ...

DEEP in the heart of the Amazon flows a hot water river that can boil animals alive. The 100C waterway would scold a person who falls in with third degree burns in just seconds – and ...

an international team of explorers plans to set off in April 2024 to the source of the Amazon in the Peruvian Andes, then travel nearly 7,000km across Colombia and Brazil, to the massive river’s ...

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 ...

A vast network of waterways born in the glaciers of the Andes in Ecuador and Peru ... rivers that feed the Marañón River and, ultimately, the Amazon River. The water flowing from these ...