RIO DE JANEIRO — Guinness World Records ... the mountains where the Amazon is said to begin. For the next seven months, members will map and measure the river’s entire course until it reaches ...

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BRASILIA, Brazil — Holder of one-fifth of the world’s fresh water, the Amazon is beginning the dry season with many of its rivers already at critically low levels, prompting governments to ...

Sponsor Message In the more than 100 years since river levels have been monitored, never has the mighty Amazon and the major tributaries of the world's largest river system recorded such little ...

"This really is something quite exceptional," says Dr Ben Clarke, a researcher with the World Weather Attribution group. As the map below shows, drought hit almost all of the Amazon basin.