A pledge from the Brazilian president to pave a road that runs through the Amazon rainforest is prompting concerns from ...

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

Much of Brazil is burning as tens of thousands of fires rage around the country, half of them in the Amazon rainforest.

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

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 ...

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 delicate ecosystem in the Amazon rainforest is threatened by drought. A series of record-breaking wildfires are currently burning in several regions in Brazil, threatening residents and some ...

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

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 ...

That’s the highest number in the past 14 years. And, more than 8.6 million acres were torched in the Brazilian Amazon by August 30, according to records from the Environmental Satellite ...

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 ...

Brazil is fighting wildfires that have cast smoke across swaths of its territory, fuelled by heatwaves and the nation’s worst drought on record. The area of the Amazon in Brazil, home to about t ...