Amazon microplastics contamination in fish has reached a crisis: half of jaraqui, Amazonas state's most-consumed freshwater ...

Smaller fish species are more nutritious, lower in mercury and less susceptible to overfishing, a Cornell-led research team has found. The team's study was conducted in the Amazon River, but the ...

A mass fish die-off in Brazil’s Amazon River region has killed an estimated 20-30 metric tons of fish and other aquatic animals, following one of the worst droughts in Amazonian history. On the night ...

The Amazon River begins as capillaries of water trickling down the eastern slopes of the Andes. The waters flow, gathering sediments, nutrients and organic material, braiding into a vast hydrologic ...