Brazil auctioned off several land and offshore potential oil sites near the Amazon River on Tuesday as it aims to expand production in untapped regions despite protests from environmental and ...

Brazil’s Federal Prosecutor’s Office has signed a landmark agreement with Elon Musk’s Starlink to limit the use of its ...

SANTAREM, Brazil (Reuters) -Brazilian soy farmers are pushing further into the Amazon rainforest to plant more of their crops, putting pressure on a landmark deal signed two decades ago aimed at ...

As Brazil prepares to host COP30, construction of a controversial highway through the Amazon rainforest has sparked criticism ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — After four years of rising destruction in Brazil’s Amazon, deforestation dropped by 33.6% during the first six months of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s term ...

An Amazon summit, featuring leaders from Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Guyana, Venezuela, Suriname, and Ecuador, will meet for the first time in 14 years.

BELEM, Brazil — Amazon rainforest nation leaders met Tuesday for the first time in 14 years to find common ground on fueling economic development while protecting an ecosystem vital to the ...

AGUA CLARA, Brazil — 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.

People cycle along the street in Afuá, a city in northern Brazil's Pará state, in January. Since 2002, this city on the banks of the Amazon River has been famously off-limits to motor vehicles.

Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest slowed by nearly half compared to the year before, according to government satellite data released Wednesday. It’s the largest reduction since 2016 ...

HUMAITÁ, Brazil — Dorival Costa has no qualms about scorching the earth. The 70-year-old farmer in the Brazilian Amazon has just set fire to 5 acres of rainforest that he will convert into ...

When then-presidential candidate Joe Biden offered Brazil $20 billion last year to protect the Amazon, Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro rejected it with scorn. Now, Brazilian activists worry ...