Indigenous communities along the Amazon River are grappling with severe challenges as an unprecedented drought causes water levels to plummet. Unforeseen scarcity is threatening livelihoods and access ...

Fossil fuel CO2 emissions are taking the world’s time-honored ecosystems, like the world-famous Amazon River, down onto their knees. The problem is greenhouse gases like CO2 and CH4 trap heat ...

In Brazil´s Amazonas state, almost 6,000 riverine dwellers authorized to fish have reported a significant drop in production ...

A British explorer has become the first person ever to travel the length of an uncharted Amazon river. Ash Dykes, 33, battled sickness and hallucinations to finish his epic 37-day trip by reaching ...

In June 2024, satellite images taken of the mighty Amazon River and its tributaries captured healthy rushing waters and high water lines. Now, a mere three months later, images of the same ...

Images of one of the Amazon River’s main tributaries, the Negro River, show just how dramatically water is dwindling. When ...

The world’s largest river system, the Amazon, which sustains some 30 million people across eight countries, is drying up. The banks of the Amazon River this month in Colombia. Colombia’s ...

The world’s longest river is at its lowest levels after a long drought. That's left the Amazon Rainforest, the vital waterway ...

Images of one of the Amazon River's main tributaries, the Negro River, show just how dramatically water is dwindling. Drought is devastating Brazil's Amazon rainforest, and some rivers are falling ...

Before the smaller of two branches of the Amazon that flow past Leticia started to dry up three months ago, it took the villagers only around 15 minutes to reach the shores of the river.

RIO DE JANEIRO – The world’s largest river is parched. The Amazon River, battered by back-to-back droughts fueled by climate change, is drying up, with some stretches of the mighty waterway ...