STORY: This river in Brazil’s Sao Paulo state has one of the world’s highest concentrations of microplastic pollution, according to a new study. Its findings are raising concerns among scientists and ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A night fishing trip 30 years ago showed Brazilian public health doctor Apolo Heringer the meaning of health: a clean river full of fish — a notion ...

Dredging and rock-blasting ever-drier rivers for new channels in Brazil might not achieve agribusiness’s goal of cheaper, year-round transport, experts warned, suggesting existing railways as ...

The presence of the Balbina hydroelectric dam in the Brazilian Amazon led to the local extinction of several endemic fish ...

There's a river in Brazil where the water is so clear that when you swim in it, it feels like you're flying. While the Amazon gets all the headlines for South America's largest country, Brazil, ...

Fishing yields in the Upper Paraná River, on the border between the Brazilian states of São Paulo, Paraná, and Mato Grosso do Sul, have fallen by around 50% in two decades. According to a study ...

Brazil is home to 12% of the world’s freshwater, with rivers and wetlands stretching across the Amazon basin. Despite its abundance, water is not a given for everyone. Climate change and human ...

Four years after the Fundão dam collapse – the world’s largest mining disaster, which occurred in 2015 in the city of Mariana in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil – a study found that fish in the Doce ...