Amazonian fish are facing an alarming new threat. A series of extreme droughts is drying up the region's rivers and wetlands ...

A large-scale federal operation to remove cattle raised illegally in the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve has triggered ...

A new bill recently approved by the Senate in Brazil undermines the licensing of projects that can have huge environmental ...

SAO PAULO, Brazil — With little fanfare and virtually ... of cattle ranchers who had illegally converted swathes of Amazon rainforest into pasture land. The new legislation, which was passed ...

Brazil’s environmental goals suffered a major setback in May as deforestation in the Amazon surged 92% compared to the same month last year, according to official monitoring data ...

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

Brazil's Quilombola people, the descendants of Africans who escaped slavery, have lived in the nation's vast Amazon and ...

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

According to a 2023 audit by Brazil´s Federal Prosecution Service ... In exchange for the amnesty, cattle ranchers must join Rondonia's environmental regularization program, which requires ...