The current drought is concerning because it comes relatively early in the Amazon's dry season.

Seven South American countries have agreed measures to protect the Amazon river basin, amid global concern over massive fires in the world's largest tropical forest. Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia ...

Extreme drought affecting large parts of South America has dramatically reduced the flow of the Amazon River where Colombia ...

Satellite data analyzed by Brazil's space research agency INPE identified a record-breaking 346,112 fire hotspots so far this ...

South America is the fourth largest continent, with around 423 million people living there. There is a hot and wet climate in the Amazon rainforest and it is full of biodiversity. The rainforest ...

The Paraná river is at its lowest level since 1944 The water levels of the Paraná river, the second-longest in South America after the Amazon ... the Río de la Plata Basin.

Brazil is fighting wildfires that have cast smoke across swaths of its territory, fuelled by heatwaves and the nation’s worst drought on record.

TEFE, Brazil, Sept 17 (Reuters) - The worst drought on record has lowered the water level of the rivers in the Amazon basin to historic ... caused wildfires across South American nations, cloaking ...

A second year of historic drought has caused water levels in the Amazon basin to fall to record lows. Local residents impacted by the changing environment are calling for action.

This collection of Funky Facts from Go Jetters focuses on South America ... Use maps and atlases, as well as aerial imagery, to find and talk about major features such as the Amazon and the ...