There are many indigenous communities living in the rainforest today. The Amazon River is the longest in South America, and the second longest river on Earth after the Nile in Africa. The source ...

Indigenous communities along the Amazon River are grappling with severe challenges as an unprecedented drought causes water levels to plummet. Unforeseen scarcity is threatening livelihoods and access ...

Then the river takes the shorter course and the meander is left isolated as a curving lake. There the water at last is still. Liz Bonnin: In the Amazon, those bodies of water are relatively small ...