For 7,000 years, before it was dammed, the river just outside my Iowa doorstep flowed into the Mississippi; joining waters from New York to Saskatchewan, it tumbled toward the flat, slow-moving ...

Seventy-seven local, national and international environmental groups, from the Mediterranean Alliance for Wetlands, and 250 ...

Reading documents from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) makes me morose. Everything looks terrible. This is ...

Bull sharks are known to be able to swim between saltwater and freshwater, but they're showing up in rivers and lakes in ...

Abstract. The aim of the present study was to quantify the suspended solid concentrations (C SSL) and suspended solid transport (T SSL) in the mixing zone of the Pará River Estuary.This estuary is ...

Local leaders and residents gathered recently for an open house event focused on a major cleanup effort targeting the Milwaukee Estuary Area of Concern.

Indigenous and rural communities from Peru’s northern Amazon have filed a formal complaint against the government for failing ...

Brazil’s government announced that multiple oil companies secured the rights to develop 19 offshore oil fields near the ...

A lifelong fascination with nature and fieldwork led this researcher to the world of ethnobiology a field where ecology, ...

Brazil has auctioned off several land and offshore potential oil sites near the Amazon River, aiming to expand production in untapped regions despite protests from environmental and Indigenous groups.

Near the top of a mountain in the Peruvian Andes is a small lake named Laguna McIntyre. This is the source of the Amazon River, so named for the National Geographic photographer, writer, and ...