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 ...

"After two decades of work in South America, we had found several giant forms from the region, but this is the first dolphin of its kind," Marcelo Sanchez-Villagra, director of the paleontology ...

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 ...

Every spring when the rains fall in South America, the Amazon River and its tributaries begin to spill their banks. Eventually, thousands of square miles of rainforest are flooded, creating a vast ...

But in Brazil, home to the powerful Amazon River, which cleaves South America more than slithers across it, the Nile’s standing is slightly lower. “Second biggest river in the world,” scoffs ...

MANAUS, Brazil, Oct 16 (Reuters) - (This Oct. 16 story has been corrected to reflect a record low for a major tributary, not the Amazon River itself, in the headline and paragraph 1) A major ...

Ancient stone carvings on a rocky point of the Amazon River exposed after water levels dropped to record lows during a drought in Manaus, Brazil. Credit: Reuters ...