Photojournalist Thomas Peschak overcomes challenges to bring the Amazon River system to life in pictures to protect it. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

An Amazon river dolphin, also called a boto, pauses for an underwater portrait in Brazil. Photograph by Flip Nicklin, Minden Pictures, Nat Geo Image Collection Please be respectful of copyright.

The carcasses of at least 125 Amazon river dolphins have been found floating or beached after temperatures in Lake Tefé, Brazil, reached a staggering 39.1 degrees Celsius.

The new South American exhibit will be called the Amazon River’s Edge. Scott Maddox with the Caldwell Zoo said crews broke ground last summer and demolished the old space. ... The zoo will be adding a ...

The Amazon basin was once home to freshwater dolphins that grew up to 3.5 metres long – making them the largest river dolphins known to science.. Researchers made the surprise discovery during a ...

Every 40 to 50 meters (130-160 feet), mining dredges suction material from the riverbed. In the most intensively dredged areas, they even block the free movement of river traffic.

Male Amazon river dolphins have been documented rolling upside down and firing a stream of urine into the air. As if that isn’t bizarre enough, other males will usually seek out the urine as it ...

More than a hundred dolphins have been found dead in the Brazilian Amazon amid an historic drought and record-high water temperatures that in places have exceeded 102 degrees Fahrenheit.