Research in Brazil and Colombia shows that nearly all Amazon deforestation occurs within a few kilometers of roadways. Road by road, Amazon cities grew with their "backs to the river," as locals ...

MANAUS, Brazil, Oct 16 (Reuters) - (This Oct. 16 story has been corrected to reflect a record low for a major tributary, not the Amazon River itself, in the headline and paragraph 1) A major ...

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 United Nations has chosen Brazil to host ... in the fringes of the Amazon forest. It’s the capital city of the state of Pará located on the coast of the Amazon river estuary.

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 ...

As a punishing drought dries up stretches of the Amazon River, Brazil is resorting to dredging to try to keep food, medicine and people flowing along the watery superhighway. As a punishing ...

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.

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 ...

Theodore Roosevelt joined the Brazilian explorer Cândido Rondon on an expedition aimed at charting a major tributary of the Amazon called the Rio da Dúvida, or River of Doubt. Over four grueling ...

Brazil is hosting the 2025 United Nations ... The city is situated on the Pará River, close to where the Amazon River meets the Atlantic Ocean, and serves as a key entry point for the Amazon ...

Lago do Soares, Brazil — Indigenous leader Filipe ... It is planned near the mouth of the Madeira River, which flows into the Amazon River. The build-out will include two shafts reaching a ...