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 ...

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 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 ...

The extreme climatic conditions of the Amazonian lakes have become a slow poison for their inhabitants. A recent study has ...

Amazon’s top technology officer told the United Nations this week that people will need to eat more fish and less beef if they want to protect the environment, and said artificial intelligence is a ...

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