Higher temperatures in the Amazon could threaten the very functioning of many plants there, says Rodolfo Nóbrega at the University of Bristol – and the Boiling River illustrates this perfectly.

By Liz Kimbrough “You’re engulfed in waves of steam and sweating buckets and there’s no cool water anywhere,” Kenneth Feeley, a professor at the University of Miami, tells Mongabay. He’s describing ...

Researchers have discovered 381 new species during a two-year study in the Amazon region ... But all the newly discovered animals and plants were found in areas at risk from human activity ...