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.

T he Amazon River slinks through the northern jungles of Peru, rushing past the remotest corners of the earth alongside uncontacted tribes and rare wild animals. It continues up to Colombia's ...

River levels in the Amazon are at record lows, upending lives, stranding boats and threatening endangered wildlfie, as Brazil endures its worst drought on record CNN values your feedback 1.

People from the Tikuna Indigenous community carry aid from a nonprofit amid a drought on Amazon River in Loma Linda, near Leticia, Colombia, Sunday, Oct. 20, 2024. Water levels have dropped by up ...

To take an Amazon River cruise from Ecuador, you will need to fly to the even smaller town of Coca, where small cruise ships explore the natural scenery of Yasuní National Park.

Since 2002, this city on the Amazon River has been famously off-limits to motor vehicles. ... An aerial view of Afuá, a Brazilian municipality in Pará state, on the Amazon River delta.

MANAUS — The Negro River, the major tributary that runs through the Brazilian Amazon, has reached historic lows, revealing millennia-old carvings previously hidden under water.

In Colombia, the river's fall has isolated some rural Indigenous communities, prompting nonprofits and the government to deliver water and food to places that depend on rain and river water to survive ...

Around 16 million years ago, a dolphin giant cruised the depths of its watery domain. But unlike most modern dolphins, its home wasn’t an ocean; it lived in a freshwater lake in the Peruvian Amazon.

This dust, rich in potassium and iron from dead diatoms, fertilizes the Amazon rainforest. The Amazon River then filters phosphorus into the ocean, creating algal blooms that support marine life.