These branching river systems are important because they are often found in densely populated, flood‐prone regions ... for climate impacts. This map shows the world's rivers in their full ...

As a punishing drought dries up stretches of the Amazon River ... elsewhere in the world, average temperatures are rising, creating conditions that cause droughts. Some regions of the Amazon ...

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 ...

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 ...

More than 1,900 kilometers (1,200 miles) from Chapada dos Veadeiros to the Northeast, the Amazon — the world’s most voluminous river — and one of its main tributaries, the Madeira River ...

The Amazon River in South America is the largest river by discharge volume of water in the world and battles with the Nile in Africa for the title of the longest in the world, at an impressive ...