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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

During Brazil's Worst Drought, Wildfires Rage and the Amazon River Falls to a Record Low BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil is enduring its worst drought since nationwide measurements began over ...

A federal court in Brazil ordered a rancher to pay more than $50 million for destroying part of the Amazon rainforest. Additionally, the court froze the assets of Dirceu Kruger to pay for the ...

The Madeira River, a major tributary of the Amazon River that stretches for 3,300 kilometres (2,050 miles) over Brazil and Bolivia, reached its lowest level since monitoring began in 1967 this ...

The newly resurfaced footage, originally captured in March 2016, shows an Amazon river dolphin, also known as botos, urinating into the air in Brazil’s Tocantins River. In the video, the dolphin ...

Residents of Brazil's Amazon are struggling to breathe as a wave ... Silva, who lives farther up the Purus River in Labrea, also said she had never seen anything like this before.

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 ...