State of the Amazon: Freshwater Connectivity and Ecosystem Health report is launched during the 7th World Water Forum, Gyeongju, Korea. The freshwater ecosystems in the Amazon region are under threat ...

More information: Bernardo Caldas et al, Identifying the current and future status of freshwater connectivity corridors in the Amazon Basin, Conservation Science and Practice (2022). DOI: 10.1111 ...

The freshwater biome is home to likely millions of wonderful aquatic plants and animals, ... native to South America's Amazon River Basin and introduced to the States in the late 1800s.

A team of researchers saved endangered, freshwater dolphins after falling river levels left them stranded in isolated ...

Scientists examined around 23,500 species of dragonflies, fish, crabs and other animals that depend exclusively on freshwater ecosystems. ... “Huge rivers like the Amazon can appear mighty, ...

From its “flying rivers” to its flowing streams and flooded forests, the basin’s flood pulse is the life-blood that sustains the Amazon ecosystem and the 40 million people who depend on it.

Freshwater ecosystems provide drinking water, food, and natural flood controls for billions of people, making their preservation critical. The Nanay River winding through Peru's Amazon jungle as ...

Nearly a quarter of animals living in rivers, lakes and other freshwater sources are threatened with extinction, according to new research. “Huge rivers like the Amazon can appear mighty, but at ...

Around 16 million years ago, a dolphin giant cruised the depths of its watery domain. But unlike most modern dolphins, its home wasn’t an ocean; it lived in a freshwater lake in the Peruvian Amazon.