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The Amazon rainforest -- considered one of the world's most important climate regulators - continues to face serious threats in 2025.
Brazil’s Federal Prosecutor’s Office announced Friday a deal with Elon Musk’s Starlink to curb the use of its services in illegal mining and other criminal activities in the Amazon. Starlink ...
Brazilian soy farmers are pushing further into the Amazon rainforest to plant more of their crops, putting pressure on a landmark deal signed two decades ago aimed at slowing deforestation.
Partnering with Germany, the World Bank, and WWF in 2002, a Brazilian conservation group established a new park system, the Juruena National Park—now the third-largest park in Brazil.
While oil prospects in the Amazon north shore attract international attention, the offer of exploration blocks around Indigenous territories goes unnoticed in Mato Grosso state.
Rosiene Carvalho Associated Press LAGO DO SOARES, Brazil — Indigenous leader Filipe Gabriel Mura stands before Soares Lake in Brazil’s Amazon, looking out at the amber waters that are ...
Brazil is clearing tens of thousands of acres of Amazon rainforest to make a highway for the upcoming COP30 climate summit, according to a BBC report.
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.
Satellite images appear to show a new highway cutting through the rainforest in the Brazilian state set to host COP30.
Brazil cut down portions of the Amazon rainforest to build a four-lane highway and make it just a little easier for those 50,000 people to arrive.
LAGO DO SOARES, Brazil (AP) — Indigenous leader Filipe Gabriel Mura stands before Soares Lake in Brazil’s Amazon, looking out at the amber waters that are surrounded by a jagged shoreline that ...
In the Juruena Valley, for example, the program aims to restore 182,000 hectares of degraded pastureland while protecting 970,000 hectares of Amazon rainforest.