Antonio has spent the past seven years running toward fires that most others run from. A firefighter in the Brazilian Amazon ...

By Fernanda Wenzel In May 2025, a delegation of angry politicians and agribusinessmen from the Brazilian state of Pará ...

Petrobras was granted controversial licence despite claiming its project would leave Indigenous communities unaffected ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aerial view of triggered forest fire and deforestation for planting soya beans in the Amazon Rainforest, Vilhena - Rondonia state ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The world’s largest meat company, JBS, has allegedly fuelled illegal deforestation, land grabs and human rights abuses in the ...

Brazil’s Amazon teems with plant and animal life and is critical to the health of the planet as a storehouse of carbon ...

ITUPIRANGA, Brazil (Reuters) -A narrow skiff slides among massive rocky outcroppings on the Tocantins River, where the catfish and peacock bass throng in the eddies during the waxing moon. For most of ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest fell by 11% from August 2024 to July this year, the government said Thursday, even as wildfires tracked by Brazil’s space agency surged ...

A strategic shift in law clears the way for a highway that scientists warn will push the Amazon to a tipping point.

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 ...