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

From the Amazon Rainforest and the Atacama Desert to the towering Andes Mountains and Patagonia's rugged beauty, its vastness and cultural vibrancy are unmatched. Brazil, the continent's largest ...

Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest slowed by nearly half compared to the year before, according to government satellite data released Wednesday. It’s the largest reduction since 2016 ...

But it could also spell disaster for the rainforest's original custodians. More than 300 Indigenous groups in Brazil call the Amazon home ... deserts into snowcapped mountains towards northern ...

Archaeologists have begun uncovering a 250-year-old lost city in Brazil's Amazon rainforest — and are ... the so-called "Serra da Muralha" or "Wall Mountains" that are associated with a nearby ...

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 ...

Languages: English. Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest has decreased by 46 percent compared to the previous year, government satellite data released on Wednesday showed. Brazil is the ...

In Brazil’s Amazon, people are trapped in a vicious cycle in which deforestation begets poverty, and poverty begets deforestation. Already, more than a fifth of the country’s rainforest has ...

The Amazon rainforest takes up about 40% of the landmass of South America. It stretches across eight countries and one overseas territory on the continent. Brazil contains the ... low-lying islands to ...

The march marked the opening of a four-day gathering known as the Pan-Amazon Social Forum (FOSPA), a semi-annual incubator where activists and leaders from Indigenous, Afro-descendant and other ...

Archaeologists have begun uncovering a 250-year-old lost city in Brazil's Amazon rainforest — and are ... the so-called "Serra da Muralha" or "Wall Mountains" that are associated with a nearby ...