More than half of Brazil's rivers are at risk of reduced flow due to water seeping into underground aquifers. This is the result of an analysis of 17,972 wells throughout the country. Of these, 55.4% ...

A narrow skiff slides among massive rocky outcroppings on the Tocantins River, where the catfish and peacock bass throng in the eddies during the waxing moon. For most of his life, Welton de Franca ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A night fishing trip 30 years ago showed Brazilian public health doctor Apolo Heringer the meaning of health: a clean river full of fish — a notion ...

Twenty years ago, a meeting of scientists that included Brazilian climatologist Carlos Nobre coined the term “flying rivers” to describe the water vapor moving from east to west in the atmosphere over ...

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — The Negro River, the Amazon's second largest tributary, on Monday reached its lowest level since official measurements began near Manaus 121 years ago. The record confirms that ...

River levels rose again Sunday as strong rains lashed waterlogged southern Brazil, where flooding has killed 145 people and forced hundreds of thousands from their homes. Residents of the state of Rio ...

MIRITITUBA, Brazil, Feb ⁠27 (Reuters) - ⁠Truck drivers in Brazil are facing unusually ⁠long delays to deliver soybeans at the Miritituba port terminal in the Amazon rainforest, as a record harvest of ...

It looks like a snowy winter scene, but the Tiete river -- in Sao Paulo state, Brazil -- is actually covered in a toxic foam. During Brazil's dry season, the sewage that is dumped into the river ...

A night fishing trip 30 years ago showed Brazilian public health doctor Apolo Heringer the meaning of health: a clean river full of fish — a notion that inspired the Manuelzão Project to restore the ...

More than half of Brazil’s rivers are at risk of reduced flow due to water seeping into underground aquifers. This is the result of an analysis of 17,972 wells throughout the country. Of these, 55.4% ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Joao, a truck driver, poses for a picture while waiting for her truck to unload soybeans at the port of Miritituba as heavy grain ...