Besides its length, it is the largest river by volume. The Amazon's massive flow is fed by tributaries that are among the ...

The Amazon River in South America is the largest river by discharge volume of water in the world and battles with the Nile in Africa for the title of the longest in the world, at an impressive ...

The region drained by the Amazon River, including the Amazon rainforest, is in the second year of a punishing drought. That has led to the lowest water levels in more than 100 years for the Amazon ...

RIO DE JANEIRO – The world’s largest river is parched. The Amazon River, battered by back-to-back droughts fueled by climate change, is drying up, with some stretches of the mighty waterway ...

What they found shocked them. Nearly half of the world’s largest downstream rivers — 44% — saw a drop in the amount of water flowing through them each year, according to the research ...

The central route alone stretches nearly 900 miles from the Danjiangkou Reservoir in Hubei Province all the way to Beijing.

In the world's largest dam removal project, the Elwha River now flows past the old Glines Canyon Dam (at bottom) in Olympic National Park. Over the past three years, the sediment trapped behind ...

The region drained by the Amazon River, including the Amazon Rainforest, is in the second year of a punishing drought. That has lead to the lowest water levels in more than 100 years for the ...