MANAUS, Brazil (AP) — Communities dependent on the Amazon rainforest's waterways are stranded without supply of fuel, food or filtered water. Dozens of river dolphins perished and washed up on shore.

Brasilia, Brazil — The Negro River, the Amazon's second largest tributary, on Monday reached its lowest level since official measurements began near Manaus 121 years ago. The record confirms that this ...

MANAUS, Brazil (AP) — Communities dependent on the Amazon rainforest’s waterways are stranded without supply of fuel, food or filtered water. Dozens of river dolphins perished and washed up on shore.

Deep in the Amazon jungle, a pregnant woman needs help. Her baby is about to come, and a drought has parched the rivers that connect her community to the nearest hospital. Enter Tabita dos Santos ...

The delicate ecosystem in the Amazon rainforest is threatened by drought. A series of record-breaking wildfires are currently burning in several regions in Brazil, threatening residents and some of ...

Authorities across Brazil have implemented emergency measures after a thick blanket of smoke settled over major cities, including São Paulo and the capital Brasília, closing schools, grounding flights ...

Oct. 28 (UPI) --Brazil's bid to turn the mouth of the Amazon River into a new oil frontier is facing institutional pushback. While the national oil regulator recently awarded dozens of offshore blocks ...

Brazil’s government has signed a 30-year contract to privatize a section of the BR-364 highway, a key part of its plan to create an overland corridor to Peru to streamline commodity exports to China.

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Remarkable discoveries in an Amazon cave rewrote human history, but it remains largely unknown as farmers advance closely. Boasting hundreds of ...