To figure out how to save the wetland forests of the Amazon, an ecologist from Brazil led a massive series of expeditions to sample trees across the vast rain-forest.

Severe droughts across Brazil's Amazon rainforest region are drastically altering residents' lives as mobility is hampered by record-low levels on upper stretches of the Amazon River. In the town of Manacapuru,

Sugarcane farmer Marcos Meloni is still haunted by his battle last month to fight the flames on his land, as the double-edged disaster of fires and drought hits Brazil's agricultural sector hard.