The Yaku Mama Amazon Flotilla is launching a symbolic journey from the city of Coca in Ecuador to demand a new paradigm: placing the Amazon at the heart of the fight for climate justice and promoting ...

Stretching thousands of kilometers through South America, the Amazon River sustains the largest rainforest on Earth. This ...

A new method for predicting how rainfall contributes to river flow across the entire US has been developed by an ...

Timpishka, a 4-mile river so hot it can kill within seconds — yet there’s no volcano or geothermal vent nearby to explain it.

On an overcast November morning, volunteers got to work to restore local river flow. Drought and decreasing water availability have been ongoing problems throughout Arizona. In Tucson, drought along ...

The Coral Triangle is an extremely biodiverse patch of ocean around the Philippines and Papua New Guinea. Its relatively ...

Scientists warn that "flying rivers" — invisible streams of moisture that carry rain from the Atlantic Ocean westward across ...

Local Amazon communities protect ecosystems while sustaining fisheries. Support is needed to keep efforts viable. New research highlights “unprecedented” conservation outcomes achieved through ...

When you drive over a river now you might think that river is very low. You are probably correct. Let’s see just how low many Michigan rivers are right now. The U.S. Geological Survey (called the USGS ...

Irrigation districts in Central Oregon are preparing for their annual winter water shut-offs. This annual pause in water deliveries dries up canals across the region, and significantly lowers the ...

Every rainy season, the Cristalino River in the south of the Amazon basin bursts its banks, enabling travellers to kayak ...

When people talk about “the Amazon,” they generally mean the vast Amazon rainforest, not the river that gave the forest its name. (To test this, Google “the Amazon.” When I did that, the list of top ...