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Adventure on the Amazon: An aerial view of the Amazon River near Iquitos, in Peru's Loreto Region.In 2024, an expedition group will set out to travel a 7,000-kilometer (4,350-mile) Amazon River ...

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 ...

River levels in the Amazon are at record lows, upending lives, stranding boats and threatening endangered wildlfie, ... Nearly 60% of the country is affected, with some cities, ...

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. Indigenous communities ...

The carcasses of 120 river dolphins have been found floating in a tributary of the Amazon River over the last week in circumstances that experts suspect were caused by severe drought and heat.

The carcasses of at least 125 Amazon river dolphins have been found floating or beached after temperatures in Lake Tefé, Brazil, reached a staggering 39.1 degrees Celsius.

The region drained by the Amazon River, including the Amazon rainforest, is in the second year of a punishing drought. That has led to the lowest water levels in more than 100 years for the Amazon ...