Brazil is on track to record its lowest Amazon deforestation rates since 2012. Despite this major accomplishment, experts warn that forest degradation, driven by wildfires, logging and drought, is ...

By Suzana Camargo In 2024, the Brazilian Amazon faced one of the worst fire seasons in its history: 15.6 million hectares (38 ...

Environmental and Indigenous activists say the railway, if it proceeds, will unleash an explosion of carbon and further ...

2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that’s a critical counterweight to climate change. A warming climate fed ...

Vitória Régia imagines rightwing Bolsonaro plot succeeded with US help – and highlights threats facing Indigenous peoples ...

Gold prices have surged in recent years, sparking a mining rush in the Amazon that accelerates deforestation and mercury contamination.

World leaders and delegates are meeting in the northern Brazilian city of Belém for COP30, this year's major UN climate summit. Brazil's Amazon rainforest has shrunk by an area as big as Spain over ...

Gold prices have surged in recent years, sparking a mining rush in the Amazon that accelerates deforestation and mercury ...

Brazil's Amazon rainforest has shrunk by an area as big as Spain over four decades and is nearing a dangerous tipping point, according to monitoring data released Monday. The Amazon was approaching a ...

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 ...