An Indigenous man protests against the auction of dozens of oil blocks, including blocks near the mouth of the Amazon River, ...

Historic forest fires in Brazil last year scorched through an area larger than the size of Italy, recording a burned area some 60 percent higher than average of the last ...

A recent New York Times story covered how the Marubo people of Brazil were adjusting to life with the internet. They had received Starlink only months earlier, and according to the NYT piece, it ...

BRASILANDIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil auctioned off several land and offshore potential oil sites near the Amazon River on Tuesday as it aims to expand production in untapped regions despite ...

The Tampa Bay area has its first Brazilian “boteco,” the South American equivalent of a pub or Spanish taberna that is a cozy ...

Ranchers in the Amazonian state of Para are being asked to tag cattle to determine if they are grazing on illegally cleared forest. The goal is to make cattle easier to sell in key markets like the ...

A record fire season in Brazil last year caused the rate of deforestation to accelerate, in a blow to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s pledge to protect the Amazon rainforest, official ...

RIO DE JANIERO, Brazil: Brazil sold extraction rights to 19 oil and gas blocks near the mouth of the Amazon river Tuesday (Jun 17), at an auction slammed by environmentalists months before the ...

Brazil's environmental authority has approved one of the final requirements for state-run oil company Petrobras to proceed with oil exploration at the mouth of the Amazon River.