DEUS E PAI, Brazil, March 20 (Reuters) - Deep in the Amazon jungle, a pregnant woman needs help. Her baby is about to come, and a drought has parched the rivers that connect her community to the ...

Brazil is pushing the Tapajós River waterway as one of the main Amazon shipping corridors and preparing it for privatization, which will enable regular dredging and maintenance to improve its capacity ...

ITUPIRANGA, Brazil, Oct 31 (Reuters) - 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.

Five months after a major operation by federal forces, illegal mining dredges are back on the Madeira River in the Brazilian Amazon. The return of the floating structures shows the resilience of ...