A team of Brazilian Greenpeace environmental activists on Friday placed a protect banner on a sandbank that has emerged in ...

To figure out how to save the wetland forests of the Amazon, an ecologist from Brazil led a massive series of expeditions to ...

Brazil has no plan to launch a dedicated sovereign Amazon bond, a senior treasury official told Reuters, and will instead fund protection of the world's biggest rainforest via its new environmental ...

A series of record-breaking wildfires are currently burning in several regions in Brazil, threatening residents and some of ...

A federal court in Brazil has dismissed charges against one of three men arrested in the killings of an Indigenous peoples ...

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is pledging to finish paving a roadway in the heart of the Amazon that experts ...

Brazil is enduring its worst drought since nationwide measurements began over seven decades ago, with 59% of the country ...

It’s not just the environment that's vulnerable to growing regional criminal groups, an expert writes.

Severe droughts across Brazil's Amazon rainforest region are drastically altering residents' lives as mobility is hampered by ...

Brazil has opted against launching a dedicated sovereign Amazon bond, choosing instead to utilize its environmental and ...

Much of western Brazil is under stress and the Amazon basin rivers are registering at historic lows. Boats have been stranded on sandbanks, with people forced to transport goods on foot.

Left: A drone view shows floating houses and boats which are stranded due to the drought affecting the Rio Negro, the largest ...