TEFÉ, Brazil — Each morning for the last several weeks, researcher Miriam Marmontel has gazed out at Lake Tefé and the Amazon River, through a thick curtain of smoke from thousands of ...

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.

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 ...

That river starts in Brazil and flows through Paraguay and Argentina to the Atlantic. The same extreme heat and dryness is helping drive surging fires in the Amazon and neighboring Pantanal ...

The Amazon — the lush, tropical basin that holds the world’s biggest river, rainforest and a fifth ... fall temperatures have sharply risen in Brazil in recent decades, average rainfall ...

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 ...

MANACAPURU, Brazil, Sept 30 (Reuters) - (This Sept. 30 story has been corrected to fix a name in the reporting credits) The Solimoes, one of the two largest tributaries of the Amazon River in ...

MAMIRAUÁ RESERVE, Brazil — On this stretch of the Amazon River, you don't need a fish finder to locate the pirarucu, one of the world's largest freshwater fish. The splashing gives them away.

But at the same time, it is worrying... I also think about whether this river will exist in 50 or 100 years," Ribeiro said. Drought in Brazil's Amazon has drastically reduced river levels in ...

ATALAIA DO NORTE, Brazil — There ... The men had left their Amazon rainforest encampment at dawn — early enough, they believed, to sneak past the river community where some of the poachers ...

oil drilling in the mouth of the Amazon River and building a railway to transport soy to Amazonian ports. Brazil’s deforestation monitoring system tracks Aug. 1 to July 30, so Wednesday's report ...

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.