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.

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

The lack of bridges is due, in part, to the seasonal changes in the Amazon River bed. During the rainy season, the Amazon River can rise over 30 feet , tripling the width of the River in some places.

The newly resurfaced footage, originally captured in March 2016, shows an Amazon river dolphin, also known as botos, urinating into the air in Brazil’s Tocantins River.

Boats and houseboats stranded in a dry area of the Igarape do Taruma stream which flows into the Rio Negro river in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, Oct 16, 2023. Bruno Kelly/Reuters.

Fishermen hold an aphanotorulus unicolor, a species of catfish, they caught in the Amazon River amid a drought on the outskirts of Leticia, Colombia, Monday, Oct. 21, 2024.

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 ...

More than a hundred dolphins have been found dead in the Brazilian Amazon amid an historic drought and record-high water temperatures that in places have exceeded 102 degrees Fahrenheit.

Topline. The river port in the most populated city of Brazil's Amazon rainforest recorded its lowest water level in over a century on Monday amid a drought that has left boats stranded on the ...

A drone picture shows floating houses and boats which are stranded due to the drought affecting the Rio Negro, the largest left tributary of the Amazon River, at the Cacau Pirera district in ...

An Amazon delivery driver reportedly called authorities in Indian River County after a woman whispered 'help me.' Deputies spoke to the woman, who had marks to her neck and said her ex-husband ...