Just a few hundred feet from the Amazon River delta, Ivan Ferreira is converting used shipping containers into hotel rooms ...

Despite their many ecosystem services, mangroves are not well protected or funded in Brazil. See All Key Ideas On an expedition in the Amazon River Delta, researchers found mangroves growing in ...

MANAUS, Brazil — Dark clouds rumble over the tiny Amazon River community of Nossa Senhora do Livramento. After two years of devastating drought, you might think that residents in this parched ...

While southern Brazil is known for its meat, Pará’s placement on the Amazon River delta means fresh seafood is abundant, and fresh fruit is also a must: tucumã, a sweet-tasting fruit often ...

a research scientist Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research. So too is the Solimões River, whose muddy-colored waters converge with the Rio Negro at Manaus to form the Amazon River.

Brazil plans to dredge parts of the Amazon River after water levels reached a record low, endangering vital trade routes. Authorities say an artificially deeper river will restart the steady flow ...

(Stefan Kolumban) AFUÁ, Brazil — Brazilian politicians stumping ... a Brazilian municipality in Pará state, on the Amazon River delta. It is known as the "Venice of Marajó Island," for ...

Environmental policy in Brazil draws international attention because it is home to a large portion of the Amazon river and its surrounding rainforest, a store of carbon critical to protecting the ...

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP ... from Chapada dos Veadeiros to the Northeast, the Amazon — the world’s most voluminous river — and one of its main tributaries, the Madeira River, have registered ...

Just a year ago, standing where he cast his net would have been impossible—the river was far higher then . Water levels in some parts of the Amazon have ... that!" In Brazil, the situation ...

Residents of Brazil's Amazon are struggling to breathe as a wave ... Silva, who lives farther up the Purus River in Labrea, also said she had never seen anything like this before.