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.

The Amazon River is home to some of the most diverse and mysterious wildlife on Earth. Beneath its murky waters lurk strange and bizarre creatures that seem to come straight from the pages of a ...

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.

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 ...

MANAUS, Brazil, Oct 4 (Reuters) - The river port in the Amazon rainforest's largest city of Manaus on Friday hit its lowest level since 1902, as a drought drains waterways and snarls transport of ...

Male Amazon river dolphins have been documented rolling upside down and firing a stream of urine into the air. As if that isn’t bizarre enough, other males will usually seek out the urine as it ...

Amazon River’s Edge is expected to open in the spring. “We will only transport the animals when it is safe for them,” Swen said. The new exhibit occupies 7 acres inside the zoo, with an ...

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.

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.