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About one-sixth of the world's freshwater that reaches the oceans passes through the Amazon's 320-km-wide delta as it empties ...

Extreme drought affecting large parts of South America has dramatically reduced the flow of the Amazon River where Colombia ...

According to the country's National Center for Monitoring and Early Warning of Natural Disasters, Brazil is enduring its most ...

The worst drought on record has lowered the water level of the rivers in the Amazon basin to historic lows, in some cases ...

A federal court in Brazil dismissed charges Tuesday against one of three men arrested for the killings of Indigenous peoples ...

The Amazon Rainforest’s main rivers are drying out due to an unprecedented drought exacerbated by climate change. Levels have ...

KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, US — The drought in Brazil continues to make headlines. The situation can be quite misleading, and it ...

In the town of Manacapuru, near state capital Manaus, the drought has impacted navigation on the Solimoes River, which turns ...

The Ashaninka of the Amonia River, inhabitants of the western Amazon, reclaimed their land from cattle ranchers 30 years ago.

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is pledging to finish paving a roadway in the heart of the Amazon that experts ...