The carcasses of around 200 river dolphins were floating across the seven-foot (two-meter) deep waters of Lake Tefé, as a ...

Dramatic underwater photos capture the elusive Amazonian pink dolphins red-handed.

"You couldn't put your finger in the water," said the lead author of the study, which spotlights the impacts of planetary ...

We consider the Amazon to be the lungs of the world, but it is much more than that. Apart from containing the densest and ...

In September 2023, Brazil’s Lake Tefé witnessed a heartbreaking event: more than 150 river dolphins died due to extreme heat.

Scientists attributed the mass dolphin deaths in Brazil to record heat and shrinking lakes during a 2023 drought in the ...

In 2023, a severe drought heated several Amazonian lakes until they became hotter than a hot tub. Brazil's Lake Tefé hit 41.0 ...

In early October 2023, it was reported that more than 120 pink river dolphins had been found dead in Lake Tefé, which is connected to the Amazon River. Local scientists hypothesize that the deaths ...

In fall 2023, hundreds of river dolphins turned up dead in Brazil’s Lake Tefé. At the time, researchers didn’t know what had ...

TEFÉ, Brazil — Each morning for the last several weeks, researcher Miriam Marmontel has gazed out at Lake Tefé and the Amazon River, through a thick curtain of smoke from thousands of wildfires raging ...

PUERTO NARINO, Colombia (AP) — A flash of pink breaks the muddy surface of the Amazon River as scientists and veterinarians, waist-deep in the warm current, patiently work a mesh net around a pod of ...