Rain or shine, every weekday from March to December, boat owner Salvador Mitidieri ferries students from the shore of the ...

DEUS E PAI, Brazil, March 20 (Reuters) - Deep in the Amazon jungle, a pregnant woman needs help. Her baby is about to come, and a drought has parched the rivers that connect her community to the ...

Santa Rosa is a small island in the middle of the Amazon River. It has just one paved road, no running water and a health ...

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.

Afuá, a remote town in the Brazilian Amazon, banned motor vehicles over 20 years ago. Writer Mac Margolis and photographer Stefan Kolumban paid the town a visit to see what life is like.

In December 1913, four years after leaving the White House, Theodore Roosevelt joined the Brazilian explorer Cândido Rondon on an expedition aimed at charting a major tributary of the Amazon ...