When you think of Brazil, you picture colourful carnival goers ... a stop for river cruises heading into the Amazon rainforest, or for backpackers travelling around every corner of Brazil.

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Astonishing new photos from Brazil’s Amazon rainforest give a glimpse of a prosperous, never-before-seen indigenous community living near the Bolivian border, according to a report. The images ...

For roughly 65 million years, the forests of the Amazon ... an area of rainforest has turned into savannah, is there much chance of it turning back on its own to the kind of jungle that was there ...

Tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest are being cleared and paved over to build a new four-lane highway for, of all things, the upcoming COP30 climate summit in Brazil.

Tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest are being paved over in Brazil to make way for a new four-lane highway ahead of an upcoming climate summit. Belém, which is set to host ...

The researchers say this method provides a more complete picture of conservation ... against external pressures. In Brazil (which holds 60% of the Amazon Rainforest) there is a strong movement ...

The delicate ecosystem in the Amazon rainforest is threatened by drought. A series of record-breaking wildfires are currently burning in several regions in Brazil, threatening residents and some ...

A sitting American president had never before set foot in the Amazon rainforest, and Biden wanted ... Nobody,” Biden said in remarks from Manaus, Brazil. “Not when so many people regardless ...

When you think of Brazil ... part of the Amazon River system, Belém is a large access point from which to enter the mighty forest. The rainforest is a place like no other (Picture: Danni Scott ...