Africa’s largest and most fearsome freshwater predator, boasts incredible adaptability and intelligence. One of its most intriguing behaviors is constructing deep underground burrows, some reaching ...

Nearly a quarter of animals living in rivers, lakes and other freshwater sources are threatened with extinction, according to ...

In 2022, the top importer of soybeans was China, with much of it coming from Brazil. China also imported nearly $8 billion worth of beef from Brazil that year, accounting for more than two-thirds of ...

Mapping fish migration routes and identifying threats is crucial to protecting freshwater species and their habitats, ecologists argue.

Overhunting, ecosystem destruction and climate change caused by human ... From the large whales that mix ocean waters and make them more able to sustain life to tapirs that help the Amazon forest grow ...

"Almost every big river in North America and Europe is massively modified" through damming, putting freshwater species at risk, he said. In South America, the vast Amazon River ecosystem also ...

“Almost every big river in North America and Europe is massively modified" through damming, putting freshwater species at risk, he said. In South America, the vast Amazon River ecosystem also ...

In the Amazon ... threats to freshwater ecosystems[^5]. Gross Primary Productivity (GPP): The total amount of organic matter produced by photosynthetic organisms in an ecosystem.

The invasive sea lamprey brought Great Lakes fishing to its knees in the fifties and sixties, until local communities and ...

In 2024, Latin America continued facing chronic issues of deforestation, ecosystem contamination ... Brazil, home to 60% of the Amazon, also faced extreme fire activity. In the Brazilian Pantanal ...