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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

At least three people died, including a one-year-old baby, 16 others were injured and nine were missing after a boat capsized in northern Brazil's Amazon River. The boat, "M. Monteiro", was ...

River levels in the Amazon are at record lows, upending lives, ... A hopper barge stranded on a sandbank at the Solimões River, near Tefé, Amazonas state, Brazil on September 17, 2024.

Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva looks on during a ceremony of federal highway investment, at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, January 29, 2025.

MANAUS, Brazil - Francisco Mateus da Silva, 67, spent an hour walking across sandbanks and dry riverbeds where he lives in the Amazon to fetch food and water amid the worst drought on record in ...

River levels in the Amazon are at record lows, upending lives, ... A hopper barge stranded on a sandbank at the Solimões River, near Tefé, Amazonas state, Brazil on September 17, 2024.