By Amanda Magnani After two consecutive years of record-breaking droughts, the river levels in the Amazon Basin are slowly starting to recover. According to the Geological Survey of Brazil, the ...

If the Amazon rainforest are the lungs of the planet, then the Andes are its lifeblood. The world’s last remaining hotspot for agrobiodiversity, the region is the origin of many nutritionally ...

Climate-induced water shortages turn up the pressure Despite serious social and environmental impacts, hydropower remains an ...

The biodiversity of the Amazon rainforest results from biological factors, not climate change as widely thought, says new research published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B ...

Nov. 28 (UPI) --Fires in the Amazon River region may increase the melting of a nearby Andes Mountains glacier, a study published Thursday said.Fires burning in the Amazon rain forests are common ...

The loss of the massive carbon storage capacity of Amazon basin forests could result in a large increase in atmospheric greenhouse gases and to intensified global warming past the 2 degree Celsius ...

Using data collected over the last 100 years, researchers found that many of the species unique to the Andes-Amazon basin of Peru and Bolivia lack vital national-level protection, according to a ...