Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva opened the U.N. General Assembly with a call on the world to do more to combat ...

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva mentioned the fires ravaging the rainforest back home — but not the fact they're adding ...

Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is set to open the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday with a call for ...

A team of Brazilian Greenpeace environmental activists on Friday placed a protect banner on a sandbank that has emerged in ...

Infrastructure investments, agricultural production systems, land speculation and the exploitation of mineral resources have ...

Brazil has no plan to launch a dedicated sovereign Amazon bond, a senior treasury official told Reuters, and will instead fund protection of the world's biggest rainforest via its new environmental ...

A federal court in Brazil has dismissed charges against one of three men arrested in the killings of an Indigenous peoples ...

sunlight hits the leaves in Mamirauá Ecological Reservation in Amazonas in Brazil in 2022. To figure out how to save the wetland forests of the Amazon, an ecologist from Brazil led a massive ...

Vast, diverse parts of Brazil are burning at the same time, forcing officials to rethink how to protect crucial ecosystems like the Amazon. By Manuela Andreoni Large parts of Brazil, a country ...

A new report links Brazil’s top meatpackers — JBS, Marfrig and Minerva — to widespread deforestation across the Pantanal, Amazon and Cerrado; of five farms investigated between October 2023 ...

Much of western Brazil is under stress and the Amazon basin rivers are registering at historic lows. Boats have been stranded on sandbanks, with people forced to transport goods on foot.