Compared to many of the world’s river systems, the Orinoco is relatively intact ... WWF is working on the ground in Venezuela and Colombia with local communities to protect one of South America's most ...

Rivers join downstream, flow downhill, and eventually meet an ocean or terminal lake: These are fundamental rules of how ...

My dissertation was based on work I did in the Orinoco River region in Venezuela. Then I applied for a grant from the US government to analyze museum collections containing material from the Amazon in ...

There are many indigenous communities living in the rainforest today. The Amazon River is the longest in South America, and the second longest river on Earth after the Nile in Africa. The source ...

Running through the rainforest in the northern portion of South America is the Amazon river. Although it’s disputed if the Amazon is the longest river in the world, it does carry more water than ...