In the image, shared from orbit, the Amazon appears almost like a living organism, its vast network of tributaries branching ...

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Deep in the Peruvian Amazon, biochemist Rosa Vásquez Espinoza investigates the medicinal properties of microbes flowing in a sacred boiling river. Biochemist and National Geographic explorer Rosa ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. In December, researchers gathered extensive data on a population of Amazon river dolphins in the Amanã Sustainable Development Reserve in the ...

When people talk about “the Amazon,” they generally mean the vast Amazon rainforest, not the river that gave the forest its name. (To test this, Google “the Amazon.” When I did that, the list of top ...

Experts often warn about the “tipping point” for the Amazon, a scenario in which the rainforest collapses into a drier, less ...

(CNN) — In today’s modern age, it might be fair to assume that science has decisively answered some of the bigger questions regarding the natural world – or at least those dependent upon sheer ...