There are many indigenous communities living in the rainforest today. The Amazon River is the longest in South America, and the second longest river on Earth after the Nile in Africa. The source ...

MANAUS, Brazil - The river port in the Amazon ... even through the rainy season - has plagued the Amazon and much of South America since last year, also feeding the worst wildfires in more than ...

A BRIT explorer has gone through a treacherous 400-mile journey to become the first person ever to travel the length of an uncharted Amazon ... Coppename River in Suriname, South America.

The Amazon River has seen its levels in Colombia reduced by as much as 90 percent, a government agency said Thursday, as South America faces a severe and widespread drought. The river—the world ...

The river -- the world's biggest ... this week that wildfire activity in South America this year has been "markedly above average" especially in the Amazon region and the Pantanal wetlands.

Below-average rainfall - even through the rainy season - has plagued the Amazon and much of ... dryness is affecting much of South America, with the Paraguay River also at an all-time low.

Water levels along several sections of the Amazon River, which winds nearly 4,000 miles across South America, fell last month to their lowest level on record, according to figures from the ...

BOGOTÁ, Colombia — The Amazon River has seen its levels in Colombia reduced by as much as 90 percent, a government agency said Thursday, as South America faces a severe and widespread drought. The ...