A mass fish die-off in Brazil ... adding strain to the families who depend on the freshwater supply. “It’s paradoxical that riverine communities in the Amazon face water stress while living ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- A team of scientists from the Field Museum of Natural History has just returned from one of the remotest places on earth. The scientists spent weeks exploring the far reaches of the ...

A major reason why scientists know so little about giant freshwater rays is because they hide at the bottom of the river. They’re not considered a good food fish in Southeast Asia, so they’re ...

This story appears in the April 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Hundreds of millions of people worldwide would lack their prime source of protein without freshwater fish. Yet the lakes ...

By Amanda Magnani After two consecutive years of record-breaking droughts, the river levels in the Amazon Basin are slowly ...