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Ships transiting the Amazon River are facing draught restrictions, limiting cargo capacity due to a substantial reduction in the water

Manaus, Brazil (AFP) Oct 14, 2023 - Manaus, the largest city in Brazils Amazonas state, has for days been engulfed by a toxic cloud of smoke from forest fires lit by what the government labeled criminals.

The water level at a major river port in Brazils Amazon rainforest hit its lowest point in at least 121 years on Monday…

The measure became even more relevant in October, following the finding of more than 100 dead dolphins in an Amazonian lake — experts suspect that the deaths are directly linked to the extreme drought affecting the region.

There have been more than 2,700 Amazon wildfires this month alone. That's on top of a drought that has left some river communities stranded.

The water level at a major river port in Brazil's Amazon rainforest hit its lowest point in at least 121 years on Monday, as a historic drought upends the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and damages the jungle ecosystem. Rapidly drying tributaries to the mighty Amazon river have left boats stranded, cutting off food and water supplies to remote jungle villages, while high water temperatures are suspected of killing more than 100 endangered river dolphins.

Some incredible photos of the 2023 solar eclipse.

Ana Rosa de Lima is a Brazilian materials engineer living in Germany. She had no idea that a 2019 crowdfunding campaign for a beekeeping project in the Indigenous Kayapó village of Mojkàràkô village, in the Brazilian Amazon, would inspire a community-based native beekeeping movement. Four years later, the project that began in Pará state has […]

SAO PAULO (Reuters) -The water level at a major river port in Brazil's Amazon rainforest hit its lowest point in at least 121 years on Monday, as a historic drought upends the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and damages the jungle ecosystem. Rapidly drying tributaries to the mighty Amazon river have left boats stranded, cutting off food and water supplies to remote jungle villages, while high water temperatures are suspected of killing more than 100 endangered river dolphins. The...

Shipping companies look at navigability of the Amazon River