Brazilian federal prosecutors asked state-run oil firm Petrobras to do more studies before drilling off the coast of the ...

Forest loss in Brazil’s Amazon dropped by 30.6% compared to the previous year, officials said Wednesday, the lowest level of destruction in nine years. In a 12-month span, the Amazon rainforest ...

One of the priority areas is along the BR-319 highway, where experts warn deforestation may increase fourfold under another ...

A Canadian company mining a key fertilizer for grain crops in Brazil’s Amazon region is set to have its shares traded in the ...

Transportation of soybeans and corn on barges along the Brazilian Amazon's Tapajos River, which had been suspended in early ...

Almost half of Brazil’s carbon emissions come from deforestation. The Amazon is a vital climate regulator, contains the most biodiverse forest in the world plus one-fifth of the world´s freshwater.

In 2023, deforestation rates fell by 62 percent in the Amazon and 12 percent in Brazil overall (though deforestation in the Cerrado, Brazil’s tropical savannas, increased). So far in 2024 ...

Archaeologists have discovered a lost Portuguese settlement from the 18th century in the Amazon Rainforest using LiDAR ...

Transportation of soybeans and corn on barges along the Brazilian Amazon's Tapajos River, which had been suspended in early ...

17, 2022. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros, File) AGUA CLARA, Brazil (AP) — Forest loss in Brazil’s Amazon dropped by 30.6% compared to the previous year, officials said Wednesday, the lowest level of ...