Brazilian state oil company Petrobras said Tuesday that a "fluid leak" had forced it to halt drilling off the coast of the ...

Some of the world's largest soybean traders are preparing to break their agreement to curb deforestation of the Amazon ...

By Constance Malleret In the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve in the Brazilian Amazon, locals tap rubber and extract Brazil ...

Brazil’s Attorney General has recommended a four-month delay to a state law that will remove tax benefits from crop traders ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest fell by 11% from August 2024 to July this year, the government said Thursday, even as wildfires tracked by Brazil’s space agency surged ...

A team of scientists based in Brazil recently reported that they discovered a new species of Tinamou in the mountains of the ...

Many locals are cheering on the Brazilian government’s plans to rebuild a decrepit highway. Environmentalists are less keen ...

In communities around the Amazon Rainforest, there's a pervasive belief that large landowners use their money to influence ...

When President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil returned to power, he had an ambitious goal: restoring his country’s image as a champion of climate action. He vowed to slash Brazil’s emissions of ...

Indigenous-held Amazon forest absorbs more CO2 than it emits Other Amazon areas have become a source of planet-heating gases Protecting land from forest loss could avoid tipping point RIO DE ...

Bolsonaro and his Liberal Party did better than expected Several anti-environmentalists won seats in Congress Future of the Amazon seen depending on run-off results RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 5 (Thomson ...