On the border between Peru, Colombia, and Brazil, a common front comprised of Colombian dissidents, Brazilian organized crime ...

People living in the Amazon basin rely on boats and ferries to cross the headwaters spanning from the Andes to the Atlantic delta.

By Liz Kimbrough “You’re engulfed in waves of steam and sweating buckets and there’s no cool water anywhere,” Kenneth Feeley, a professor at the University of Miami, tells Mongabay. He’s describing ...

The Amazon rainforest staggered through another difficult year in 2024. A second year of record drought contributed to ...

Indigenous people, who have sacred connections with the Amazon River, are suffering the consequences of wildfires, extreme heat and drought, which have deeply affected water levels across the basin.

The Boiling River, also known as the Shanay-timpishka or La Bomba, is part of a tributary in east-central Peru that connects to the mighty Amazon River. The hills in this area were scoured by ...

In the river communities of the Brazilian Amazon, houses are connected to smaller annexes with legs submerged in water.

Santa Claus has braved the sticky heat of the Amazon rainforest this weekend, taking two boats to bring gifts to the children of a small village near the Brazilian city of Manaus.

This year, the drought in Amazon rivers is already worse than in 2023, when 209 pink and grey river dolphins were found dead in Lake Tefé, in Amazonas state, largely due to overheating of the waters.