MANAUS, Brazil (AP) — One of the Amazon River’s main tributaries has dropped to its lowest level ever recorded, Brazil’s geological service said Friday, reflecting a severe drought that has devastated ...

The Madeira Basin has the most diverse fish life in the Amazon River Basin with 1,406 species catalogued, but human interference and the climate crisis are provoking a significant decline in fish ...

By Enrique Vera On a small airplane, José Manuyama, a professor, frowns and shakes his head with anguish while thousands of ...

The Amazon is changing faster than many researchers once thought possible, and the signals are no longer subtle. From record ...

The launch of the Tropical Forests Forever Facility (TFFF) at the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil underscores how the Amazon Forest can be part of the climate solution. There’s another Amazon, ...

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 ...

South America’s Amazon River Basin is currently undergoing a severe drought, with water levels in the river lower than they have been in the past 120 years. A boat travels through a section of the ...

Despite the rapid increase in severe flooding, a new article indicates recent floods and droughts in the Amazon River Basin may have not yet exceeded the range of natural hydroclimatic variability.

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 ...

An Amazonian lake reached 106°F recently, and that heat killed hundreds of river dolphins - an alarming sign of climate ...