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

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

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

As a punishing drought dries up stretches of the Amazon River, Brazil is resorting to dredging to try to keep food, medicine ...

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

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

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

Huge tributaries that feed the mighty Amazon River — the largest on the planet — have plunged to record-low levels, upending lives, stranding boats, and threatening endangered dolphins as drought ...

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

River flows around the world fell to all-time lows last year amid record heat, endangering water supplies in an era of ...

MANAUS, Brazil (AP) — One of the Amazon River’s main tributaries has dropped to its lowest level in 122 years, Brazil’s ...

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