Centrepiece of a city funded by the rubber boom, this opera house in the ‘Paris of the jungle’ is a symbol of Brazil’s controversial urban past, and present On the evening of 7 January 1897, a large ...

The Brazilian city Manaus, deep in the heart of the world's largest tropical rain forest, is frantically preparing for a 21st-century Amazonian wonder. The World Cup is coming to this remote city, ...

A major geographical wonder in South America, the Amazon River flows some 4,000 miles from Peru to Brazil's Atlantic coast, making it the second-longest river in the world. Amazon River cruises ...

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 ...

In the shadow of a giant bridge under construction, waiting in her dented Fiat for a ferry, Jandira Costa has no qualms about development in the Amazon. "We can't wait for it to open," she says of the ...

Across Amazonas state, more than 400,000 people have been affected by flooding, hitting a region already reeling from the pandemic MANAUS, May 17 (Reuters) - Heavy rains in the Amazon rainforest have ...