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 ...

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, 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 ...

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 ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s environmental regulator refused on Wednesday to grant a license for a controversial offshore oil drilling project near the mouth of the Amazon River, prompting ...

In Brazil's Amazon, dolphin therapy aids people with disabilities Floating in the Rio Negro river in the Brazilian Amazon, Luiz Felipe, who has Down Syndrome, beams as he hugs a pink dolphin ...

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.

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 ...