International Rivers' analysis of challenges facing communities in Brazil offers innovative solutions for protecting nature and human rights.

International Rivers today released a new study outlining the threats facing the Tapajós River Basin and innovative legal ...

Repeated and widely publicized government actions against illegal miners in Amazonas state have only deepened the trade's ...

The construction of the Autazes Potash Project by Brazil Potash has the potential to create a new economic anchor in the ...

One of the new species was discovered in an unusual and “very difficult” to access location near the Rio Purus, a tributary ...

Attacks from the religious right on Marina Silva, a Pentecostal and longtime environmentalist, expose the rifts within Brazil ...

Lula has staked his reputation as a climate leader by going out of his way to host the Cop30 climate summit, to be held in ...

The study area was located in the surroundings of the city of Manaus, referred to geographically as the Lower Negro River region, in the state of Amazonas, Brazil. Sampling sites included Açutuba ...

You’ve heard it’s the Nile. You’ve heard it’s the Amazon. The truth depends on where you start—and how you measure.

As a controversial bill nears passage in Brazil, environmentalists and civil society prepare for what they call the ...