Flowing across the heart of South America, the Amazon River nourishes the planet’s largest rainforest and countless species that depend on it. This video explores the river’s extraordinary geography ...

Rivers in the heart of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil fell to their lowest levels in over a century on Monday as a record drought upends the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and damages the ...

STUDY LOCATIONS using your 1:4,000,000 South America map and sample outline maps: Geography.About.com maps: South America A note: Matt Rosenberg, the geography guy at About.com is a part-timer with ...

PUERTO NARINO, Colombia (AP) — A flash of pink breaks the muddy surface of the Amazon River as scientists and veterinarians, waist-deep in the warm current, patiently work a mesh net around a pod of ...