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Water Temperatures in Amazon Lakes Reached Hot Tub Levels in 2023, Killing Fish and Dolphins

In fall 2023, hundreds of river dolphins turned up dead in Brazil’s Lake Tefé. At the time, researchers didn’t know what had ...

Hundreds of dolphins found dead in Amazon lake were in water hotter than a jacuzzi, study finds

"You couldn't put your finger in the water," said the lead author of the study, which spotlights the impacts of planetary ...

Every question to ask before you book an Amazon river cruise

You can only really do the Amazon from the water. The world’s greatest river rises in Peru’s Andean uplands and ends at the ...

Amazon lakes became ‘simmering basins’ as temperatures spiked to 105 degrees — above recommended limits for hot tubs

A heatwave made lakes in the Amazon hotter than the maximum temperature recommended for hot tubs — a death sentence for ...

Hundreds of Amazon dolphins were boiled to death after lake temperatures surged to hot-tub levels

A severe drought and heatwave turned Brazil's Lake Tefé into a deadly cauldron, with water reaching 41°C. Hundreds of ...
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The Hidden Amazon River So Hot It Can Boil You Alive

Deep in the Peruvian Amazon, a remote river called Shanay-Timpishka runs so hot that anything falling in is instantly cooked.

Brazil's 'people of the river' pay price for Amazon hydropower

The waters of the Xingu River below the Belo Monte hydropower dam, in Brazil's Amazon, used to flood the river's forested ...

From the Andes to the Amazon, Indigenous Leaders Bring Their Demands to COP30

BELEM, Brazil (Reuters) -After journeying for weeks from a glacier in the Andes to Brazil’s tropical coast, a boat carrying ...

How South America became the up-and-coming oil capital of the world

The region is seeing a boom in fossil fuels just as the impacts of the climate crisis really bite. It’s raising thorny questions about who gets to benefit from planet-heating oil.