Environmentalists warn that reconstructing BR‑319 without safeguards could increase deforestation rates fourfold. "We are ...

Poor laborers were lured to the automaker’s cattle ranch in the Amazon and promised a better life. Brazilian prosecutors say ...

The accelerated degradation of the Brazilian Amazon, primarily due to fires, has overshadowed the significant reduction in ...

By Lucas Berti Brazil’s environmental agenda is tasting bittersweet in 2025. While the country’s northern capital city of ...

A ceramic pot and the shell of a turtle, once hunted for its meat, are the most recent traces of an Indigenous community thought to live deep in the north Brazilian Amazon.

A new study shows that conserving 350 million hectares (865 million acres) of the Brazilian Amazon — 83% of the biome — would cost between $1.7 billion and $2.8 billion a year.

BELEM, Brazil — Amazon rainforest nation leaders met Tuesday for the first time in 14 years to find common ground on fueling economic development while protecting an ecosystem vital to the ...

HUMAITÁ, Brazil — Dorival Costa has no qualms about scorching the earth. The 70-year-old farmer in the Brazilian Amazon has just set fire to 5 acres of rainforest that he will convert into ...

When a massive tree toppled in the floodplains of Fonte Boa, a region in the Brazilian Amazon, local fishermen noticed ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — After four years of rising destruction in Brazil’s Amazon, deforestation dropped by 33.6% during the first six months of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s term ...

In 2020, more than 2,500 major fires burned across the Brazilian Amazon between late May and early November, according to MAAP. Although the majority of the 2020 fires burned on cleared lands, a ...

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has nearly 4,000 low-orbit satellites across the skies, connecting people in remote corners of the Amazon. AP. He spoke on condition of anonymity over concerns for his ...