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From an ecological point of view, the significance of the [archaeological] sequence is that the Amazonians have always very much managed the rainforest and rivers.

They’ve powered some of our biggest deluges in recent years and caused disastrous floods: so what are “atmospheric rivers” and how do they affect us?
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The zen of tech and going for a jog.

With climate change, a 1% increase in watts per square meter of heat energy is warming the ocean, causing seawater to swell, currents to flow stronger, and greater storms to

New findings have revealed a coastal realm highly sensitive to changes in runoff and rainfall on land. After helping stoke record heat in 2023 and drenching major swaths of the United States this winter, the current El Niño is losing steam this spring. Scientists have observed another way that th

Greenpeace's Arctic Sunrise journeyed over 40 hours to Colombia's Malpelo sanctuary, uncovering alarming plastic pollution and illegal fishing, highlighting urgent environmental challenges in Latin American marine ecosystems.

Brazils state-owned oil company Petrobras said Wednesday it had discovered a new reservoir in the ultra-deep waters of the Potiguar Basin, in the Anhangá exploratory well, located between the states of Amapá and Rio Grande do Norte.

Researchers from the University of Zurich have found a 16-million-year-old fossilized skull belonging to a giant dolphin species in the Amazon River in Peru.

Floodplains are extraordinarily productive because they are the interface between aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. They are remarkably diverse because they integrate a mosaic of lakes, marshes, palm swamps and inundated forests, which create the complex food webs that support fish populations. Floodplain habitats are socially and economically vital because tens of thousands of families depend […]

Throngs of onlookers travelled to the mouth of the Amazon River near Afuá, in the Brazilian state of Pará to witness the release of an endangered species of turtle endemic to the region. This is the 41st release since the Brazilian government's biodiversity conservation program began in 1981, bringing the total turtles released to 179,000 to date.