Legends tell of gold-hungry Conquistadors encountering a steaming river of boiling water within the depths of the Amazon ...
“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 the Boiling River ...
Deep in the Peruvian Amazon, biochemist Rosa Vásquez Espinoza investigates the medicinal properties of microbes flowing in a sacred boiling river. Biochemist and National Geographic explorer Rosa ...
As a child, Andrés Ruzo, a geothermal scientist from Lima, Peru, heard legends of the Spanish conquistadors’ failed quest to discover the lost city of gold. They were peppered with colorful details, ...
When Andrés Ruzo was a boy growing up in Peru, he learned of an old Incan legend: a “boiling river” hidden deep in the Amazon. Today he sets out to find it. National Geographic Explorer Andrés Ruzo ...
A new study found that extreme heat and drought turned an Amazon lake into water hotter than a jacuzzi, killing hundreds of dolphins and exposing the growing toll of climate change on tropical ...
Scientists studying Peru’s Boiling River found 11% fewer tree species for every 1°C (1.8°F) increase in temperature, offering insights into how climate change might affect the Amazon Rainforest. The ...
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