Once destined for the priesthood, Edson Abreu dos Santos now shepherds volunteers to tackle Amazon’s fire crisis.

Brazil is the world’s most biodiverse country, and the title is not closely contested in absolute numbers: between 10% and 15 ...

Ahead of a major exhibition in London documenting the South American wetland as it faces unprecedented threat, Lalo de Almeida recounts the stories behind his award-winning images ...

According to the World Population Review, a few countries lead the world in terms of forest cover in 2026, not only because ...

Hundreds of Indigenous people have been protesting at a Cargill facility in Santarem, Brazil, against a decree signed in ...

While the just-concluded United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) in the Amazonian city of Belém may have achieved ...

Small-scale deforestation often represents a permanent change as the cleared land is turned into farms, roads and villages.

The world’s climate math increasingly hinges on a surprisingly specific variable: whether the Amazon’s biggest trees are left ...

For the journalist Dom Phillips, the Javari Valley represented a test for the Amazon and its future. ‘More threatened than it ...

Police in Rio de Janeiro say they killed four people who attacked security forces during an operation against the Red Command gang. The operation took place in the Salgueiro complex of favelas.

The biggest trend in travel in 2026? Ethereal places. From mystic outlands to surreal landscapes, escape to one of these ...

Prosecution over death of Quinto Inuma Alvarado seen as test of ability to curb attacks on environmental defenders ...