A new report about the Amazon Basin's natural and human history, released Nov. 12 at the United Nations climate conference, COP26, in Glasgow, Scotland, points to potential solutions to prevent ...

Thousands of miles from the Gulf of Mexico spill, the indigenous people of Peru have been living with oil exploration and its effects for decades. Villagers in the Amazon basin complain of health ...

The paper brings together more than 80 years of research into both the ecology of the Amazon and the indigenous people who lived there. It collates data from two sources: the Amazon Tree Diversity ...

One million indigenous people live in the Brazilian part of the Amazon basin, many in complete isolation from the outside world. Fire smolders in an area of the Amazon rainforest near Porto Velho ...

Rapid hydroelectric dam expansion in the Amazon poses a serious threat to Earth's largest and most biodiverse river basin. There are 158 dams in the Amazon River basin, with another 351 proposed ...

Transformative changes are needed to support socio-bioeconomies for people and ecosystems in the Amazon. Nature Ecology & Evolution , 2024; DOI: 10.1038/s41559-024-02467-9 Cite This Page : ...

There are several large cities located in the Amazon basin: Belem, Brazil, located at the mouth of the Amazon River and home to 1.3 million people; Santarem, Brazil, located at the junction of the ...

Amazon Basin Indians. ... Coronavirus gets dangerously close to isolated ‘Arrow People’ in Amazon. ... Near the Amazon fires, residents are sick, worried, and angry. Environment; ...

People living along the dried-up rivers have had to carry drinking water on their shoulders Water levels in many of the rivers in the Amazon basin have reached their lowest on record amid a ...

Long before the arrival of Europeans in the Americas, one of the world’s largest rainforests teemed with people who transformed the woods around them, according to archaeologists who have found ...