All news on the topic: Amazon River

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Skeletal remains of man eaten by piranhas dragged from river with clothes intact
GRAPHIC WARNING: Boatman Odair Raash, 46, had disappeared transporting cattle on the Amazon river near Costa Marques Rondonia State, Brazil, before his skeleton was pulled from the water on New Year's Day
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Isolated Amazon tribe saved from extinction after woman took up role as leader
The Juma tribe, located in the deep Amazonian rainforest in Brazil, had been feared to be about to disappear when its leader died in 2021, but his daughter took over and it is thriving
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'We moved to the Amazon rainforest for a new life - but now we've been deported'
Greg and Guen and their young children are heading across the world to a new destination after they were have been told they must leave Guyana 'on pain of imprisonment'
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Four children who survived 40 days stranded in the jungle are out of hospital
Four young children have been released from hospital, after spending 40 days surviving in the Colombian jungle against the threat of snakes, jaguars and drug gangs. Colombian President Gustavo Petro hailed the rescue effort as the beginning of a "new Colombia".
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Hero, 13, kept brothers alive for 40 days in Amazon by playing survival game
Lesly, 13, used her "ancestral knowledge" and experience of looking after her young brothers, aged nine, four and 10 months old, to keep them alive in the Amazon rainforest, known to be one of the most inhospitable environments on the planet
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Miracle as four kids found alive in Amazon jungle 40 days after plane crash
The siblings were travelling with with their mother and two other adults when their plane came down on 1 May with suspected engine failure
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Collagen craze endorsed by top celebs fuelling damage to the Amazon rainforest
Celebrities such as Jennifer Aniston, Mark Wright and Georgia Toffolo promote one brand of collagen - although there's no suggestion they knew of the links to deforestation
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Dad taking tiny kids to live in Amazon for 15 months has 'horribly unusual' fear
Greg Dickens and Guen Bradbury say they are ready for the challenges ahead as they prepare to take their three young kids on an incredible 15-month journey through the Guyana rainforest
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Couple with three young kids to swap UK for jungle life in Amazonian adventure
For a year and three months the Dickens family of five will be based in the Amazon jungle, sleeping between three hammocks and living amongst hazards like snakes and the world’s largest venomous centipede