Brazil’s Supreme Court has upheld state laws denying tax incentives to farmers who adhered to the country's soy moratorium.

Brazil's Supreme Court is set to decide cases that could reshape protections for the Amazon rainforest and Indigenous ...

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 ...

Police in Brazil have targeted a group suspected of using chemicals to clear a vast area of the Amazon rainforest in Para.

By Shanna Hanbury Millions of hectares of Amazon rainforest are newly at risk of being legally deforested, a new study ...

The Amazon rainforest might be closer to a tipping point than scientists thought. Some fear that droughts and fire could nudge it into irreversible decline.

SAO PAOLO — Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon last year plunged to its lowest level in a decade, according to official ...

Brazil's incoming president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has vowed to undo what he called the environmental destruction caused by current president Jair Bolsonaro in his address to the COP27. Lula has ...

The amount of land burned in the world's largest rainforest was the smallest since MapBiomas records began in 1985.

The Brazilian Amazon recorded its worst February for deforestation in 2023 – Copyright POOL/AFP Stanislav Kogiku Brazilian Amazon deforestation reached its worst ...

SAO PAULO — The surge in gold prices in recent years has fueled a renewed mining rush in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, accelerating deforestation in protected areas and driving mercury contamination to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Amazon rainforest. Neil Palmer / CIAT The Brazilian Amazon is on pace to see forest clearing hit a record low this year, ...