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 ...

Amazon (River of Dreams), a 1993 song by jazz guitarist Artie Traum emblematic of the iconic river basin’s dire straits three ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

The Nile in Africa is officially recognized as the world’s longest river, but now a new expedition is heading to South America with the aim of exploring a tributary of the Amazon which may lead ...

River dolphins are among the most endangered mammals. In South America, their habitats are often polluted or blocked by dams and they easily get caught in fishing nets. WWF and its partners have ...

A young man belonging to an isolated and indigenous tribe who approached a river community in Brazil’s Amazon returned voluntarily to his own people less than 24 hours later, Brazilian ...

Deaths of 120 Amazon dolphins linked to severe drought, high temperatures. Amazon River’s pink, grey dolphins are a threatened species and among the few freshwater dolphins found in the world.

The Amazon River which is one of the world's largest waterways is currently in its dry season. This has also caused several other types of river fauna to suffer from the record-high temperatures.

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 ...