A team of Brazilian Greenpeace environmental activists on Friday placed a protect banner on a sandbank that has emerged in ...

A federal court in Brazil dismissed charges Tuesday against one of three men arrested for the killings of Indigenous peoples ...

Brazil has no plan to launch a dedicated sovereign Amazon bond, a senior treasury official told Reuters, and will instead fund protection of the world's biggest rainforest via its new environmental ...

Brazil has opted against launching a dedicated sovereign Amazon bond, choosing instead to utilize its environmental and ...

sunlight hits the leaves in Mamirauá Ecological Reservation in Amazonas in Brazil in 2022. To figure out how to save the wetland forests of the Amazon, an ecologist from Brazil led a massive ...

It’s not just the environment that's vulnerable to growing regional criminal groups, an expert writes.

Baby dolphins have been washing up dead on sandbanks left exposed by the receding waters of an Amazon lake that is drying up ...

The construction of BR-319 is a contentious issue in Brazil. A government plan to pave a highway in the Amazon rainforest is prompting concerns from environmentalists who say the development will ...

MANACAPURU, Brazil - 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 ...

A new report links Brazil’s top meatpackers — JBS, Marfrig and Minerva — to widespread deforestation across the Pantanal, Amazon and Cerrado; of five farms investigated between October 2023 ...

Vast, diverse parts of Brazil are burning at the same time, forcing officials to rethink how to protect crucial ecosystems like the Amazon. By Manuela Andreoni Large parts of Brazil, a country ...

The generals were backed by the elite, which had an interest in exploiting Brazil’s vast natural resources. Central to this vision was the Amazon Rainforest. They viewed it as a largely untamed ...