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.

Consecutive severe droughts have left communities wondering if the Amazon River will dry up even more. Jugalvis Valencia, a boat tour guide in Leticia, expressed concern for the future.

Record dry conditions in South America have led to wildfires, power cuts and water rationing. The world’s largest river system, the Amazon, which sustains some 30 million people across eight ...

As oil companies push for drilling on the Amazon coast, an underwater war silences the ocean’s most vocal creatures.

Holder of one-fifth of the world’s fresh water, the Amazon is beginning the dry season with many of its rivers already at critically low levels, prompting governments to anticipate contingency ...

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 the region, which ...

FILE – Residents transport drinking water from Humaita to the Paraizinho community, along the dry Madeira River, a tributary of the Amazon River, amid a drought, Amazonas state, Brazil, Sunday ...

“The Amazon’s hydrological cycle is becoming more extreme,” co-author Roel Brienen of the University of Leeds said in a statement. “Increased wet season rainfall can lead to more frequent and severe ...

In a grim fallout from the longest drought in the Amazon rainforest's recorded history last year, induced in part by climate change, the carcasses of more than 200 river dolphins were found ...

T he Amazon River is approximately 4,000 miles long and serves as the central vein of the Amazon Rainforest, ... The dry ...