Brazil’s environmental goals suffered a major setback in May as deforestation in the Amazon surged 92% compared to the same ...

Brazil's environmental authority has approved one of the final requirements for state-run oil company Petrobras to proceed ...

A record fire season in Brazil last year caused the rate of deforestation to accelerate, in a blow to President Luiz Inacio ...

Brazilian prosecutors filed Thursday criminal charges against the man accused of ordering the 2022 killings of Indigenous ...

For the first time, 1 in 4 people in the country are Protestants, but the prediction of outnumbering Catholics by 2032 is ...

While oil prospects in the Amazon north shore attract international attention, the offer of exploration blocks around ...

British journalist Dom Phillips was working for years on a book about saving the Amazon when he was killed in the region by ...

CAXIUANA NATIONAL FOREST, Brazil (AP) — A short walk beneath the dense Amazon canopy, the forest abruptly opens up. Fallen ...

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 ...

Brazilian prosecutors are seeking to annul a $180 million carbon offset scheme to support the conservation of the Amazon ...

As a result, Bolivia lost 14,800 square kilometres of forest in 2024, the second-most of any country, up 200% from 2023. It lost more than the Democratic Republic of Congo did, despite having just 40% ...

Forest loss reached 371 square miles during the period, the second-highest total for May since the current monitoring system ...