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

STORY: The remains of rare baby river dolphins have been washing up on the shores of Brazil's Lake Tefe in recent weeks.The ...

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

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 ...

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

sunlight hits the leaves in Mamirauá Ecological Reservation in Amazonas in Brazil in 2022. To figure out how to save the wetland forests of the Amazon, an ecologist from Brazil led a massive ...

Vast, diverse parts of Brazil are burning at the same time, forcing officials to rethink how to protect crucial ecosystems like the Amazon. By Manuela Andreoni Large parts of Brazil, a country ...

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

A new report links Brazil’s top meatpackers — JBS, Marfrig and Minerva — to widespread deforestation across the Pantanal, Amazon and Cerrado; of five farms investigated between October 2023 ...

MANACAPURU, Brazil, Sept 15 (Reuters) - Severe droughts across Brazil's Amazon rainforest region are drastically altering residents' lives as mobility is hampered by record-low levels on upper ...

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.

A judge in Brazil has imposed fines totaling 4.2 million reais, or $762,000, against two beef producers and three ranchers for deforestation in a protected part of the Amazon Rainforest.