A bill essentially abolishing Brazils environmental licensing system is just days away from likely passage by the countrys ...

Studies show that the Amazon was the most hit biome in 2024, with 15.6 million hectares burned—the largest area harmed in the ...

SANTAREM, Brazil (Reuters) -Brazilian soy farmers are pushing further into the Amazon rainforest to plant more of their crops ...

Historic forest fires in Brazil last year scorched through an area larger than the size of Italy, recording a burned area ...

Expectations have shifted since Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s initial bid three years ago to bring the ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) In 2024, Brazil experienced a 62% increase in forest fire area compared to the four-decade average, with 30 million hectares burned, mainly in the Amazon.

Brazil, host of the upcoming UN climate conference (COP30), is facing a serious ecological crisis: forest and vegetation ...

Critics fear oil exploration at the mouth of the Amazon River is a step backwards from Lula’s ‘zero emissions’ goal.

“The Amazon’s hydrological cycle is becoming more extreme,” co-author Roel Brienen of the University of Leeds said in a ...

Greenpeace Brazil returned to the ancestral waters of the Juruá River - the most curvy river in the world - to spotlight ...

Indigenous and riverine communities in the Loreto region of the Peruvian Amazon have "chronic exposure" to mercury, according ...

Brazilian soy farmers are pushing further into the Amazon rainforest to plant more of their crops, putting pressure on a ...