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

With the first U.N. climate talks in the Amazon set for November, Brazil is fast-tracking a series of controversial decisions that undercut its green rhetoric, revealing mounting political pressure ...

Brazil is pursuing significant oil and gas expansion plans despite its role as host of the COP30 climate summit, raising concerns about its commitment to environmental policies.

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 da Silva’s lofty ...

Listen to the people who live there, the slain journalist Dom Phillips advised.

Months before hosting COP30, Brazil auctioned 47 oil and gas blocks in the Amazon. Activitsts have vowed to challenge the process in court.

Co-directed by Edivan Guajajara, Chelsea Greene and Rob Grobman, the documentary introduces us to several competing concerns: ...

Most of Phillips’ research was done during the term of right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro, as Brazil’s Amazon deforestation reached a 15-year high in 2021.

The journalist should not be part of the story.” Jonathan Watts, British journalist based in Brazil, recalls the words of ...

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

More women are connecting environmental degradation with attacks on women's rights, seeing both as rooted in similar values.

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — After British journalist Dom Phillips was shot and killed while researching an ambitious book on how to protect the world’s largest rainforest, friends vowed to finish ...