The Negro river's low level reflects has been caused by a severe drought that has devastated the Amazon rainforest and other parts of Brazil ... s out of work because boats that once stopped ...

As a punishing drought dries up stretches of the Amazon River, Brazil is resorting to dredging ... The remarkable drop in water levels has left boats struggling to shuttle children to school ...

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon remains near a six-year low, with 561 square kilometers cleared in September, a 30% decline from the previous year. Fires in the Amazon have surged ...

The environmental risks of dredging include ecosystem disruption, increased erosion, water contamination, and harm to aquatic ...

Below-average rainfall - even through the rainy season - has plagued the Amazon and much of South America since last year, also feeding the worst wildfires in more than a decade in Brazil and Bolivia.

The construction of BR-319 is a contentious issue in Brazil. A government plan to pave a highway in the Amazon rainforest is prompting concerns from environmentalists who say the development will ...

MANACAPURU, Brazil, Sept 20 (Reuters) - A team of Brazilian Greenpeace environmental activists on Friday placed a protect banner on a sandbank that has emerged in the middle of one of the major ...

Read the Portuguese version here. In the badlands of the southwestern Amazon, Antonia Barbosa is fighting to protect ancient archaeological finds from Brazil’s unstoppable $523 billion ...

(This Sept. 30 story has been corrected to fix a name in the reporting credits)) By Bruno Kelly MANACAPURU, Brazil (Reuters) ...

Watch in our player above. Brazil’s Amazon saw 38,000 blazes last month, the most for any August since 2010, according to data from the country’s space institute. September is on track to ...

In August 2024, the Amazon rain forest recorded over 38,000 fires—the highest number for that month since 2010. Fires of Brazil and the Amazon Basin in 2024 have reached epic proportions.