The Amazon rainforest generates about half of its own water supply. A new study argues that basin-wide data, research and policy are needed to effectively protect Amazonian freshwater ecosystems.

Amazon freshwater ecosystems are vulnerable to degradation Date: February 1, 2013 Source: Woods Hole Research Center Summary: Broadening of forest-centric focus to river catchment-based ...

State of the Amazon: Freshwater Connectivity and Ecosystem Health report is launched during the 7th World Water Forum, Gyeongju, Korea. The freshwater ecosystems in the Amazon region are under threat ...

A new study by an international team of environmental scientists in the Brazilian Amazon shows that redesigned conservation projects could deliver big gains for critical freshwater ecosystems ...

Ignoring Freshwater Ecosystems Could Doom the Amazon Rainforest ... Aerial view showing a boat speeding on the Jurura river in the municipality of Carauari, in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon.

More information: Bernardo Caldas et al, Identifying the current and future status of freshwater connectivity corridors in the Amazon Basin, Conservation Science and Practice (2022). DOI: 10.1111 ...

“There are environmental issues everywhere, but the case with Amazon freshwater ecosystems is different, because no one talks about it. Their problem has been concealed,” said Castello.

Scientists examined around 23,500 species of dragonflies, fish, crabs and other animals that depend exclusively on freshwater ecosystems. ... “Huge rivers like the Amazon can appear mighty, ...

The freshwater biome is home to likely millions of wonderful aquatic plants and animals, ... native to South America's Amazon River Basin and introduced to the States in the late 1800s.

Freshwater ecosystems provide drinking water, food, and natural flood controls for billions of people, making their preservation critical. The Nanay River winding through Peru's Amazon jungle as ...

Around 16 million years ago, a dolphin giant cruised the depths of its watery domain. But unlike most modern dolphins, its home wasn’t an ocean; it lived in a freshwater lake in the Peruvian Amazon.

State of the Amazon: Freshwater Connectivity and Ecosystem Health report is launched during the 7th World Water Forum, Gyeongju, Korea. The freshwater ecosystems in the Amazon region are under threat ...