As a punishing drought dries up stretches of the Amazon River, Brazil is resorting to dredging to try to keep food, medicine ...

Fossil fuel CO2 emissions are taking the world’s time-honored ecosystems, like the world-famous Amazon River, down onto their ...

Experts believe dredging could unearth buried mercury deposits, which would harm the Amazon’s fragile ecosystem.

The banks of the Amazon River this month in Colombia ... and editorial archive dedicated to the country’s architectural history. Rómulo Moya, 60, recounted frantic hours working to save ...

Huge tributaries that feed the mighty Amazon River — the largest on the planet — have plunged to record-low levels, upending lives, stranding boats, and threatening endangered dolphins as ...

The Negro River drains about 10% of the Amazon basin and is the world’s sixth-largest by water volume. Manaus, the biggest city in the rainforest, is where the Negro joins the Amazon River.

Images of one of the Amazon River’s main tributaries, the Negro River, show just how dramatically water is dwindling. When The Associated Press photographed the Negro River and surrounding areas ...

Brazil announced plans to dredge the Amazon River in an effort to combat a severe drought as scientists warn it could poison ...

Prior to the arrival of Europeans, the Amazonian lowlands were home to several hundred ethnic groups living in tens of ...

The Amazon River has seen its levels in Colombia reduced by as much as 90 percent, a government agency said Thursday, as South America faces a severe and widespread drought. The river -- the world ...

MANAUS, Brazil (AP) — One of the Amazon River’s main tributaries has dropped to its lowest level ever recorded, Brazil’s geological service said Friday, reflecting a severe drought that has ...