However, a new contender, the Amazon River in South America, challenges this claim, with some recent measurements suggesting it might surpass the Nile in length.

Deep in the Amazon, the forest hides everything. Now there’s a way to see through it. Ruins of the 18th-century Portuguese village that surrounded the Príncipe da Beira Royal Fortress. COSTA ...

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

The world’s largest river system, the Amazon, which sustains some 30 million people across eight countries, is drying up. The banks of the Amazon River this month in Colombia.

MANAUS, Brazil, Oct 4 (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 ...

A growing fleet of electric boats ferries Indigenous people through the heart of the Ecuadorean Amazon, providing a cheaper and greener alternative to gas-powered vessels.

That has lead to the lowest water levels in more than 100 years for the Amazon and its major tributaries. Millions of people and an array of wildlife depend on those quickly disappearing waters.