Amazon fish farms grew 450-fold since 1985. Satellite maps now show what land the ponds replaced and where the carbon cost ...

The Amazon’s fish live in water that can change dramatically with the seasons. In some places, oxygen levels fall so low that ordinary gill breathing is not enough. Several Amazonian species have ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Following proof of the presence of microplastics in Amazonian rivers, streams and lakes, researchers are investigating how these particles affect ...

Some fish swim in synchrony. Others, it turns out, breathe in synchrony. This is true for arapaimas, an obligate air-breathing species living in the Amazon. A new study in Communications Biology, led ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thousands of fish species — about 2,500 of them named — call the Amazon River home, but scientists estimate nearly half of the ...

Amazon basin fish species living in lakes, floodplain forests and river systems need a high degree of connectivity to stay genetically diverse and healthy, but this connectivity is threatened by ...