the team determined that the Amazon river really did flow in the opposite direction in the past. That team put the reversal down to a highland area in northeastern South America, which formed ...

In the last two decades, even as it received scant attention in the Northern Hemisphere, the Primeiro Comando da Capital — First Capital Command — has remade South America’s underworld and ...

What is the longest river in the world, the Nile or the Amazon? It’s a question that has fuelled debate for years. Now, an expedition into the South American jungle aims to settle it for good.

South America’s second-largest river behind only the Amazon, has retreated this year to its lowest level since its record low in 1944, hit by cyclical droughts and dwindling rainfall upriver in ...

A young man belonging to an isolated and indigenous tribe who approached a river community in Brazil’s Amazon returned ...

Running through the rainforest in the northern portion of South America is the Amazon river. Although it’s disputed if the Amazon is the longest river in the world, it does carry more water than ...

There are many indigenous communities living in the rainforest today. The Amazon River is the longest in South America, and the second longest river on Earth after the Nile in Africa. The source ...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will meet with environmental agency Ibama this week or the ...

Naturalist and explorer George Cherrie was one of the men Theodore Roosevelt took with him on his 1913-14 journey to an uncharted river in the ... to Central and South America, collecting ...

After five years of planning, design, construction and animal acquisition, Caldwell Zoo‘s long-awaited Amazon River’s ... that highlighted animals from South America was the oldest part ...