When we arrive at the first site in the Madeira River, researchers from Amazonas State University (UEA) and Harvard position ...

Major rivers throughout the Amazon Basin have plummeted to record low levels, and water temperatures are approaching those ...

The river has flooded the rain forest, luring freshwater dolphins to hunt in the woods. The Amazon dolphin, Inia geoffrensis, parted company with its oceanic ancestors about 15 million years ago ...

More than a hundred dolphins have been found dead in a tributary of Amazon river in Brazil this past week. Experts suspect the deaths may have been caused by severe drought and rising heat.

Amazon river dolphins are showing alarming levels of contamination mainly because of illegal panning for gold, conservationists say. Researchers measured contamination levels in 46 of these large ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Over 100 Amazon river dolphins died in Brazil's Lake Tefe amid a historic drought. Seventy carcasses were found on a single day when water temperatures soared to ...