Patagonia’s forests burned fiercely in February 2025, with wildfires destroying tens of thousands of hectares in Argentina.

They suggested that in a time before the Andes had formed, this gradient caused the river (as it was then) to flow from East to West, towards the Purus Arch, while water on the west side of the ...

The Pantanal is the world’s largest tropical wetland, created by the convergence of more than 1,200 rivers and streams rushing down from the eastern Andes and the high plateaus of the Cerrado, the ...