Brazilian farmers want to end a ban on planting soya on cleared land, which critics say would spur deforestation.

Brazil insisted on hosting this year's COP30 climate summit in the Amazonian city of Belem to put rainforests at the heart of ...

In Brazil’s Amazon, people are trapped in a vicious cycle in which deforestation begets poverty, and poverty begets deforestation. Already, more than a fifth of the country’s rainforest has vanished.

First came the floods, then the fire. As he officially opened COP30, Brazil’s president, Lula Inacio da Silva said that by ...

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Wildfires in Brazil have swept through an area the size of Switzerland, a level of destruction that will take decades to recover, if it ever does, according to a new satellite ...

By Fernanda Wenzel Every year, the arrival of the rainy season and the swelling of the Anauá River indicate it’s time for the ...

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Thousands of Amazonian land defenders, both Indigenous people and their allies, have traveled ...

They found that properties with secure land rights deforested less and were more likely to comply with Brazil's Forest Code, ...

One small Indigenous territory is currently the site of roughly 70% of deforestation in Indigenous territories across the ...

LAGO DO SOARES, Brazil (AP) — Indigenous leader Filipe Gabriel Mura stands before Soares Lake in Brazil’s Amazon, looking out at the amber waters that are surrounded by a jagged shoreline that has ...

This November, the United Nations will descend on the city of Belém, Brazil in an attempt to solve climate change. The 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP30, will bring 50,000 people ...