A narrow skiff slides among massive rocky outcroppings on the Tocantins River, where the catfish and peacock bass throng in ...

You can only really do the Amazon from the water. The world’s greatest river rises in Peru’s Andean uplands and ends at the ...

Systemic change is needed. Researchers issue warning after making alarming discovery deep in Amazon rainforest: 'They need to ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — 2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that’s a critical counterweight to climate change.

The region drained by the Amazon River, including the Amazon Rainforest, is in the second year of a punishing drought. That has lead to the lowest water levels in more than 100 years for the Amazon ...

Brazil's government says deforestation in the Amazon fell 11% in the year through July 2025 to its lowest level in nearly a ...

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 and ...

The Mashco Piro have chosen to be cut off from the world for more than a century. They hunt with long bows and arrows, ...

The Amazon has always carried an air of mystery, with its winding waterways and dense rainforest stretching for miles. Travelers once saw it as unreachable, reserved only for explorers and scientists.

MANAUS, Brazil (Reuters) -The river port in the Amazon rainforest's largest city of Manaus on Friday hit its lowest level since 1902, as a drought drains waterways and snarls transport of grain ...

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 ...

The Amazon rainforest is the world’s largest tropical rainforest and falls across nine countries in South America, including Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela and Colombia. But Brazil holds a massive 60% of it ...