Forest fires have affected the area for more than 30 days. “Nearby, Lake Miriti was shrouded in haze at dawn, but it wasn’t ...

Manaus, Brazil, is a city of 1.8 million people surrounded by 2 million square miles of Amazon jungle more than 1,500 miles from Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. Though it doesn’t get as many tourists as ...

SAO PAULO — Smoke from wildfires disrupted daily life in Brazil's largest Amazon region city of Manaus on Friday as the country's dry season approached its peak. The city, the capital of Amazonas ...

In Manaus, the largest city in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, tons of stinking trash fill the canals and streams, giving one the feeling that they're visiting a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Not far from ...

It’s waiting hours in line to buy an oxygen tank – only to find there’s none left. For some, it’s rushing from hospital to hospital with a sick spouse or parent – only to find there are no beds ...

MANAUS, Brazil, Oct 12 (Reuters) - Clouds of dense gray smoke from dozens of wildfires in the Brazilian Amazon, many of them illegally started, have hung over the region's capital city Manaus, making ...

Environmentalists, Indigenous groups and climate scientists are celebrating the reelection in Brazil of President Luiz Inácio ...

The desperate words of Thalita Rocha went viral on Jan. 14. “We are in a deplorable situation,” she said in a video posted to Instagram. “Whoever has oxygen availability, bring it here to the ...

MANAUS Brazil (Reuters) - Manaus is best known as a stopover for travelers on the way to and from eco tours in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, but in many ways it is more like a bustling frontier outpost ...

Another surge was coming. This time, Uildéia Galvão thought they were prepared. Galvão, the lead physician in the coronavirus ward at a public hospital in the Brazilian city of Manaus, had been ...

When the health system first collapsed in the Amazonian city of Manaus, Brazil, and COVID-19 victims were buried in mass graves, the mayor sent a desperate appeal to then-President Donald Trump and ...

What happens when a major city allows the coronavirus to rage unchecked? If the Brazilian city of Manaus is any answer, it means about two-thirds of the population could get infected and one person in ...