Experts believe dredging could unearth buried mercury deposits, which would harm the Amazon’s fragile ecosystem.

Aside from the immediate dangers to jobs and food supply for many Brazilians, officials are highly worried about the causes ...

Brazil's geological service says that one of the Amazon River’s main tributaries has dropped to its lowest level in 122 years ...

The drought is draining waterways and snarling the transport of grain exports and supplies that are the region's lifeline.

Below-average rainfall — even through the rainy season — has plagued the Amazon and much of South America since last year, ...

The Amazon region of northern Brazil continues to suffer under the worst drought in 120 years, resulting in the lowest water ...

The river port in the Amazon rainforest's largest city of Manaus on Friday hit its lowest level since 1902, as a drought ...

Water levels in the main tributaries of the Amazon River have fallen to record lows as drought worsens across Brazil. Some ...

Just three days before departure, Seabourn, a luxury brand of Carnival Corporation, advised guests booked on Seabourn Venture ...

A BRIT explorer has gone through a treacherous 400-mile journey to become the first person ever to travel the length of an ...

Ash Dykes, 33, from Wales, and his team battled sickness and hallucinations to complete their epic 600km voyage ...

Adventurous Ash Dykes, 33, battled sickness and hallucinations to finish his epic 37-day trip by reaching the mouth of the Coppename River in Suriname, South America. The extreme athlete and his ...