Few places on earth carry the weight that the Amazon does. It regulates rainfall across continents, stores centuries worth of ...

Oct. 28 (UPI) --Brazil's bid to turn the mouth of the Amazon River into a new oil frontier is facing institutional pushback. While the national oil regulator recently awarded dozens of offshore blocks ...

As world leaders conclude the United Nations’ annual climate talks in Belém, Brazil— a summit meant to accelerate global action on phasing out fossil fuels—the Brazilian government is facing mounting ...

Deep inside Brazil's Amazon rainforest, a new gold rush is unfolding. Illegal gold miners are pushing deeper into protected Indigenous territories, destroying rivers, contaminating water with mercury, ...

A new agreement announced at the COP30 climate talks in Brazil intends to unify countries and institutions from around the world to monitor and protect the Amazon Rainforest. The Mamirauá Declaration ...

When President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil returned to power, he had an ambitious goal: restoring his country’s image as a champion of climate action. He vowed to slash Brazil’s emissions of ...

(Corrects first paragraph to say Brazil is a ⁠priority ⁠investment market, not the highest ⁠priority investment market; company statement in paragraph 7) SAO PAULO, March 3 (Reuters) - Amazon launched ...

In theory, stopping the deforestation of the Amazon is among the cheapest ways of curbing global warming. Brazil’s “Legal Amazon” region, which encompasses nine states and 60% of the entire forest ...

BELEM, Brazil, Nov 21 (Reuters) - On the banks of the Guama River where the city of Belem presses up against the vast green Amazon, Brazil is pioneering an economic model designed to help locals ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — The administration of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva frequently touts how it has sharply slowed deforestation in the Amazon, and indeed it has. When the next official ...

A new study divides Brazil into 48 zones, each defined by its climate and soil conditions. Restoration projects can use these ...