Afuá, a remote town in the Brazilian Amazon, banned motor vehicles over 20 years ago. Writer Mac Margolis and photographer Stefan Kolumban paid the town a visit to see what life is like.

RIO DE JANEIRO — Guinness World Records, Britannica and the U.S. government agree: The longest river in the world is the mighty Nile — the “father of African rivers,” Britannica says.

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 ...

Threaded throughout the Amazon, the world’s largest rainforest, is a system of rivers. More than 1,000 tributaries collect rain and glacial runoff from a basin nearly the size of the contiguous ...

The big news this spring is AmaWaterways' first cruises in Colombia. But it is not the only line with South America on its ...

A newly identified ancient skull found in Peru has revealed an extinct giant that offers insight into the evolutionary history of freshwater dolphins.

Deep in northern Peru lies a remote city that serves as a gateway to the Amazon. Take a river cruise, explore natural ...

A BRIT explorer has gone through a treacherous 400-mile journey to become the first person ever to travel the length of an uncharted Amazon river. Adventurous Ash Dykes, 33, battled sickness a… ...

Indigenous communities along the Amazon River are grappling with severe challenges as an unprecedented drought causes water levels to plummet. Unforeseen scarcity is threatening livelihoods and ...

The beloved pink river dolphins are canaries in the Amazonian coal mine, warning of the threat the heavy metal poses to humans.

The Amazon basin was once home to freshwater dolphins that grew up to 3.5 metres long – making them the largest river dolphins known to science. Researchers made the surprise discovery during a ...