August fires in the Amazon basin in the last six years. 2014. 2015. 2016. Amazon Basin. Amazon Basin. Amazon Basin. 2017. 2018. ... The maps below zoom in on the town of Apuí, in Amazonas state.

The Amazon River is a vast water system passing through the Amazon rainforest in South America. As per the area of its basin, it is the largest drainage system in the world.

Notwithstanding these and other obstacles, new technologies are helping to optimize detection, deterrence and disruption of environmental crime, including in the Amazon Basin.

Rural-to-urban migration is a worldwide phenomenon and the Amazon is no exception. Nonetheless, a very large proportion of its immigrants are small farmers who originally came from the High Andes ...

Mysterious mounds in the southwest corner of the Amazon Basin were once the site of ancient urban settlements, scientists have discovered. Using a remote-sensing technology to map the terrain from ...

Why now? And how bad is it compared to the past? So far in 2019, the number of fires burning across the Amazon is higher than at any point since 2010, which was a particularly bad year of drought ...