Pete Casey’s epic, six-year trek along the entire length of the Amazon River nears its final steps for his ambitious journey. There was the pit viper that bit his pant leg. River pirates and ...

By Mongabay.com A colonial-era myth about endangered pink river dolphins in the Amazon has led to a false belief that ...

Then the river takes the shorter course and the meander is left isolated as a curving lake. There the water at last is still. Liz Bonnin: In the Amazon, those bodies of water are relatively small ...

1. Amazon Titanic - Jeremy Wade looks into the sinking of the Sobral Santos ferry on the Amazon River, after which many were rumoured to have been eaten alive by a monstrous fish. More info ...

At 4,130 miles (6,650 km) long, the Nile in Africa is the longest river in the world. Some people consider the Amazon in South America to be longer. This is because the many hundreds of channels ...