Thousands of fish species — about 2,500 of them named — call the Amazon River home, but scientists estimate nearly half of the marine creatures lurking in the massive stretch of water remain ...
SAO RAIMUNDO, Brazil - Even in the most biodiverse rainforest of the world, the pirarucu stands out: It can weigh up to 440 pounds, by far the largest of 2,300 known fish species in the Amazon. Not so ...
A heatwave made lakes in the Amazon hotter than the maximum temperature recommended for hot tubs — a death sentence for ...
The Amazon is the largest, most biologically diverse basin in the world. Its rainforest, the planet’s greatest continuous tropical forest, plays a critical role in global climate regulation. The ...
An international team of scientists, including an ESF professor, has discovered that a large, commercially important fish from the Amazon Basin has become extinct in some local fishing communities.
The extreme climatic conditions of the Amazonian lakes have become a slow poison for their inhabitants. A recent study has ...
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