Aside from the immediate dangers to jobs and food supply for many Brazilians, officials are highly worried about the causes ...

South America is one of the most stunning places in the world, but it's not exactly easy to plan a trip there. Because the ...

Ohio Wesleyan University Professor Laurel Anderson, Ph.D., explains in a three-minute online lecture, “Rainforests, Cloud ...

Bearing six-liter bottles of water on their shoulders, members of Colombia's Indigenous Yagua community tramp along the dried ...

As a punishing drought dries up stretches of the Amazon River, Brazil is resorting to dredging to try to keep food, medicine ...

Water levels in Brazil’s Amazon always rise and fall with its rainy and ... Barbosa can no longer bathe in the river and now ...

Brazil’s geological service says that one of the Amazon River’s main tributaries has dropped to its lowest level in 122 years ...

MANAUS, Brazil (Reuters) – Francisco Mateus da Silva, 67, spent an hour walking across sandbanks and dry riverbeds where he lives in the Amazon to fetch food and water amid the worst drought on record ...

MANAUS, Brazil (Reuters ... where he lives in the Amazon to fetch food and water amid the worst drought on record in the region, which has paralyzed river transportation.

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

MANACAPURU, Brazil (Reuters) -The Solimoes, one of the two largest tributaries of the Amazon River in Brazil, fell to its ...