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

Manaus is located in northwestern Brazil, next to the river and is the capital of the state of Amazonas. Despite it being in the middle of a rainforest surrounded by trees and greenery ...

The proposed reconstruction of Brazil’s BR-319 (Manaus-Porto Velho) highway (Figure 1) needs a new environmental impact ...

logging and mining cleared 9 percent of its forest cover in the first two decades of the 21st century. Climate change has brought drought so severe that, last fall, water in the Rio Negro near Manaus ...

World Wildlife Fund says species like pink river dolphins of the Amazon, forest elephants in Gabon are in sharp decline.

River levels in the Amazon are at record lows, upending lives, stranding boats and threatening endangered wildlfie, as Brazil ...

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

Queen Mary replaced her crown with a pair of sunglasses as she kicked off an official tour of Brazil with a visit to the ...

The royal, 52, was effortlessly elegant as she visited the Amazon Museum MUSA at the Adolpho Ducke forest reserve - and later visited the Teatro Amazonas. She is in the country for a four day ...

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

Queen Mary of Denmark kicked off her official visit to Brazil on Oct. 2. During her trip, the royal mom of four had the ...