Hundreds of Indigenous people have been protesting in northern Brazil for two weeks outside the port terminal of US ...

With Eckerd College’s Global Education program, I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the Amazon Rainforest in Brazil and spend 11 days on the Rio Negro on a river boat. Every day looked quite ...

Entanglement in fishing nets and habitat loss are the greatest threats to dolphins. River dolphin populations are severely fragmented due to the building of dams. Some subpopulations of dolphins are ...

When dolphins began washing up dead by the dozens on Lake Tefe in Brazil's Amazonas state, hydrologist Ayan Fleischmann was sent to find out why. What he and his colleagues discovered was startling: a ...

LYON, France, November 5, 2025 (ENS) – In a blow to criminal organizations along South America’s Madeira River, law enforcement personnel have disabled 277 dredges used in illegal gold extraction ...

Deep in the Amazon, there's a creature that defies expectations - pink river dolphins. In this episode, we get up close with these rare freshwater mammals and explore how they’ve adapted to life in ...

River dolphins are some of the most unique, yet at-risk, animals in the world. Often restricted to small distribution areas, river dolphins unfortunately face many threats. However, advocates for ...

When most of us think of whales and dolphins, we imagine elegant blue whales, striking orcas, or the beautifully streamlined bottlenose dolphin. But the whale and dolphin family (collectively called ...

PUERTO NARINO, Colombia -- A flash of pink breaks the muddy surface of the Amazon River as scientists and veterinarians, waist-deep in the warm current, patiently work a mesh net around a pod of river ...

PUERTO NARINO, Colombia — A flash of pink breaks the muddy surface of the Amazon River as scientists and veterinarians patiently work a mesh net around a pod of river dolphins. When the team hauls a ...

PUERTO NARINO, Colombia (AP) — A flash of pink breaks the muddy surface of the Amazon River as scientists and veterinarians, waist-deep in the warm current, patiently work a mesh net around a pod of ...