REUTERS/Bruno Kelly Brazil | Reuters — The river port in the Amazon rainforest’s largest city of Manaus on Friday hit its lowest level since 1902, as a drought drains waterways and snarls transport of ...
A prolonged drought, now in its second year, is devastating large swaths of Brazil's Amazon rainforest. Whole communities and the Amazon’s largest city are struggling under the parched conditions.
Vast swaths of Amazon rainforest and large meandering rivers dominate the horizon — visual reminders of the importance of nature in tackling climate change. The city, however, tells a different ...
Yet, in the face of abrupt damaging climate change, fossil fuel companies have publicly declared their intentions to crank up oil and gas production like never before, quadrupling production from ...
BRASILIA, Oct 18 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden is expected to visit the Amazon rainforest and meet Brazilian ... at the mouth of the Amazon River, on Nov. 16 or 17, after the Asia-Pacific ...
For the year ending July 31, the Brazilian Amazon rainforest lost 6,288 square kilometers ... oil extraction in the Atlantic near the Amazon River’s mouth and for the paving of BR-319, a ...
according to government data released on Wednesday -- the smallest area destroyed in the world's largest rainforest in nine years. Roughly 6,288 square km (2,428 square miles) of Amazon were ...