Initial results from Harvard reveal high levels of mercury in the Madeira, although still below the limit recommended by ...

In Singapore, greenery everywhere provides shade, cools the city, absorbs carbon dioxide and benefits people in many other ...

A round up of grants made and funding available, including grants for nonprofit literary organisations, and for ...

Environmental DNA harvested from the ocean, land and air can help scientists monitor wildlife. The challenge is figuring out how to interpret this eDNA.

Next to piles of log-like cassavas are stacked towers of fruits – some of the country’s 1000 varieties – as strange as obscure reptiles, collected from Colombia’s Andes, Amazon ...

For more than a decade, stand-up paddleboards (SUPs) have proliferated on beaches, lakeshores and river banks. In certain seaside towns, the sound of violently deflating boards has come to mark the ...

Costa Rica may be small, but it certainly packs a punch when it comes to wildlife. According to experts, there are 615 ...

President Biden made a historic visit to the Amazon rainforest Sunday to view the Amazon River and the ongoing effects of climate change. With his visit Sunday, Biden became the first sitting American ...

Legends tell of gold-hungry Conquistadors encountering a steaming river of boiling water within the depths of the Amazon rainforest. Surprisingly, this sensational tale holds a remarkable degree ...

MANAUS, Brazil — Joe Biden toured the drought-shrunken waters of the Amazon River’s greatest tributary Sunday as the first sitting American president to set foot in the legendary rainforest ...

The Amazon River dolphin (also known as the pink dolphin and botos) is a freshwater animal and a species of toothed whale. Considered the biggest and smartest animal of the freshwater dolphin species, ...