This year's United Nations climate conference in November is in Belem, Brazil, a city facing high poverty and infrastructure ...

In the Pantanal, deforestation decreased by 72 percent, dropping to 319 km² from 1,148 km² in the previous period. The biome ...

Over the past 12 months, deforestation in Brazil’s Cerrado biome dropped by 20%, while the Amazon saw a 4% rise in alerts. In ...

New state-level legislation in Brazil, including the withdrawal of tax incentives for companies adhering to the ASM, is ...

Brazil's Climate Observatory has called the bill the "biggest environmental setback" since Brazil's military dictatorship, in ...

Related: The Amazon rainforest is officially creating more greenhouse gases than it is absorbing ...

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva partially vetoed a controversial law that campaigners warned would gut ...

Lula approved the controversial bill easing environmental licensing rules, but struck down or altered 63 articles.

Mining in Brazil does not deliver the sustained economic benefits often claimed, while informal mining is a major driver of ...

He said Brazil, meanwhile, must keep its goals of lowering deforestation to zero by 2030 – although the objective seems hard to achieve. “The goals are ambitious, utopian, but must be followed.

Brazil’s largest Indigenous organization has launched the country’s first Native-led strategy to cut greenhouse gas emissions ...

Standard Chartered has agreed to sell millions of carbon credits aimed at protecting the Amazon rainforest on behalf of the ...