From Lucas do Rio Verde, a major agricultural hub in the state of Mato Grosso, the railway would be built from scratch, ...

Frequent forest fires and agricultural expansion are degrading soil health in the southern Brazilian Amazon. This results in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Given recent developments on the international stage, Brazil is emerging as a potential leader on environmental issues, says the UN ...

Brazilian federal prosecutors are seeking to cancel a $180 million carbon credit deal between the state of Pará and the LEAF Coalition, arguing it was made without properly consulting Indigenous ...

CAXIUANA NATIONAL FOREST, Brazil (AP) — A short walk beneath the dense Amazon canopy, the forest abruptly opens up. Fallen logs are rotting, the trees grow sparser and the temperature rises in ...

MANAUS, Brazil — Months before hosting the U.N.’s first climate talks held in the Amazon, Brazil is fast-tracking a series of controversial decisions that undercut President Luiz Inácio Lula ...