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 ...

Record dry conditions in South America have led to wildfires, power cuts and water rationing. The world’s largest river system, the Amazon, which sustains some 30 million people across eight ...

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 ...

The newly resurfaced footage, originally captured in March 2016, shows an Amazon river dolphin, also known as botos, urinating into the air in Brazil’s Tocantins River.

Peru’s Marañón River was made a legal person, granting it the rights to be free-flowing and free of contamination. Mari Luz Canaquiri Murayari, who was central to the campaign, has won the ...

In a recent article, a computer engineer presents the unconventional argument that the true location of the biblical Garden of Eden lies beneath a popular Egyptian landmark.

Scientists have deciphered the world’s oldest map after years of study – and they believe they’ve unearthed the final resting place of Noah’s Ark. The Imago Mundi, a 3,000-year-old ...

A warming climate fed drought that in turn fed the worst year for fires in the Amazon rainforest since 2005. And those fires contributed to deforestation, with authorities suspecting some fires ...

Water levels in the rivers that run through the vast Amazon rainforest have been falling, after a record drought followed by less rain, presenting unprecedented challenges for the Ribeirinhos ...

Brazil’s president Lula has greatly escalated his pressure for approval of oil drilling in the mouth of the Amazon River since the February 1st election of a senator from the state nearest the ...

A new Amazon Fresh supermarket will open in Citrus Heights in November, its third site in Northern California, the retailer announced.