In 2021, towns in Amazonas, Brazil, along the Amazon River and its tributaries flooded due to heavier-than-usual rainfall. Just two years later, the riverbeds turned to sand during months of drought.

MANAUS, Brazil, Oct 16 (Reuters) - (This Oct. 16 story has been corrected to reflect a record low for a major tributary, not the Amazon River itself, in the headline and paragraph 1) A major ...

Drought is devastating Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, and some rivers are falling to historic lows. Images of one of the Amazon River’s main tributaries, the Negro River, show just how ...

Part of the Negro River is visible in Manaus, state of Amazonas, Brazil, on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024, top, and the same location Wednesday, June 19, 2024. Tags Climate Change ...

The world's longest river is at its lowest levels after a long drought. That's left the Amazon Rainforest, the vital waterway and tributaries parched, stranding communities and affecting livelihoods.

As a punishing drought dries up stretches of the Amazon River, Brazil is resorting to dredging to ... In one stretch in the Brazilian state of Amazonas, the river was 25 feet below the average ...

TEFÉ, Brazil — Each morning for the last several weeks, researcher Miriam Marmontel has gazed out at Lake Tefé and the Amazon River, through a thick curtain of smoke from thousands of ...

Two pink Amazon river dolphins swim side-by-side. Image by Fernando Trujillo / Omacha. TEFÉ, Amazonas state, Brazil — A pair of pink Amazon river dolphins emerges for just a moment, arcing ...

Houseboats sit amid drought-impacted land near the Solimões River in Tefe, Amazonas state, Brazil, Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros) TEFE, Brazil (AP) — Just months after enduring ...

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 ...

Critics fear oil exploration at the mouth of the Amazon River is a step backwards from Lula’s ‘zero emissions’ goal.

Boats are seen stranded at David's Marina, as the water level at a major river port in Brazil's Amazon rainforest hit its lowest point in at least 121 years on Monday, at the Rio Negro River in ...