The Amazon Basin lost about 27,000 square kilometers of forest each year from 2001 to 2016. By 2021, about 17% of the basin ...

Research in Brazil for possible oil reserves near the mouth of the Amazon river has to go ahead but any discoveries should ...

The longest rivers in the world stretch over thousands of kilometres. From the Amazon to the Nile, they are crucial to human ...

In September 2024, the Amazon’s worst drought in generations hit Paraizinho, a small riverside community that depends on the once-reliable Madeira River. Crops withered. Wells ran dry. The river, ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The Madeira River, the largest tributary of the Amazon, has been losing water flow over the last 20 years while facing severe droughts.

Residents and businesses affected by recent flooding along the Vaal River say it will take years ... AllAfrica is a voice of, by and about Africa - aggregating, producing and distributing 500 ...

A Peruvian navy vessel has collided with an oil platform in the Amazon River, killing at least two people and leaving one missing. The collision happened in the early hours of Friday morning at ...

A Peruvian navy vessel collided with an oil platform operated by Perenco on the Amazon River, resulting in two deaths and one person missing. The collision occurred near the mouth of the Napo River, ...

Once Bacuri transitions fully to plant-based food, he will be moved to a river enclosure before his ... and climate change is tightening its grip on the Amazon’s delicate ecosystem.

upstream along the Amazon River. Dozens of dolphins died near Mamiraua in 2023, likely due to soaring water temperatures during a historic drought. Manatees avoided mass mortality then because ...