All 10 million people who live on the banks of the Amazon River can only cross the freshwater flow by boat. The lack of bridges is due, in part, to the seasonal changes in the Amazon River bed.

Bridges in the Amazon would work great… until January. For most of its length, the Amazon isn't anywhere close to too wide to bridge—in the dry season. But during the rainy season, the river ...

Ecuador’s Yasuní National Park, along the banks of the Napo River, shows how biodiversity can thrive when humans don’t interfere. A butterfly sits perched on the shell of an endangered yellow ...

HUMAITA, Brazil, Sept 8 (Reuters) - 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 ...

Every spring when the rains fall in South America, the Amazon River and its tributaries begin to spill their banks. Eventually, thousands of square miles of rainforest are flooded, creating a vast ...

Under the lush thicket of the Peruvian Amazon is a river that boils and heats up to 212 ° F—hot enough to cook small animals that may fall into its path. But these steaming waters are still teeming ...

The secret wildlife and remarkable people of the Amazon, from shamans to electric eels. The Amazon, the greatest river system on Earth, amasses one-fifth of Earth’s freshwater as it flows east ...

In many places along the Amazon River, those fears appear to be coming true. At least 570 Indigenous people in Brazil have died of the disease since March, according to an association that ...

The world's longest river is at its lowest levels after a long drought. That's left the Amazon Rainforest, the vital waterway and tributaries parched, stranding communities and affecting livelihoods.

Experiences like this are the reason I've come to spend four days sailing along the head of the Amazon River and into the Pacaya Samiria National Reserve with Aqua Expeditions, an adventure-cruise ...