The Nile and the Amazon are both long — no one is arguing that point — but scientists still don't agree on which one is actually longer. Some say the Nile, some say the Amazon. Explorer, filmmaker and ...

Last year’s record drought in the Amazon and less-than-usual rainfall since caused river water levels to drop rapidly, hindering navigation by barges carrying grains for export and cutting off ...

SAO PAULO, Oct 27 (Reuters) - More rare freshwater dolphins in Brazil have been found dead in a new location along the Amazon River, in the latest grim fallout from the longest drought in the ...

MANAUS, Brazil — Dark clouds rumble over the tiny Amazon River community of Nossa Senhora do Livramento. After two years of devastating drought, you might think that residents in this parched and ...

Huge tributaries that feed the mighty Amazon River — the largest on the planet — have plunged to record-low levels, upending lives, stranding boats, and threatening endangered dolphins as drought ...

The river port in the most populated city of Brazil's Amazon rainforest recorded its lowest water level in over a century on Monday amid a drought that has left boats stranded on the Amazon river and ...

Rivers in the heart of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil fell to their lowest levels in over a century on Monday as a record drought upends the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and damages the ...

When people talk about “the Amazon,” they generally mean the vast Amazon rainforest, not the river that gave the forest its name. (To test this, Google “the Amazon.” When I did that, the list of top ...