The Amazon has had its worst forest fires in two decades. More than 62,000 square kilometres have been burned this year ...
Fires in Brazil's Amazon rainforest region surged to the highest number for September in almost a decade and a half, ...
Francisco Mateus da Silva, 67, spent an hour walking across sandbanks and dry riverbeds where he lives in the Amazon to fetch ...
(This Sept. 30 story has been corrected to fix a name in the reporting credits)) By Bruno Kelly MANACAPURU, Brazil (Reuters) ...
The environmental risks of dredging include ecosystem disruption, increased erosion, water contamination, and harm to aquatic ...
Queen Mary replaced her crown with a pair of sunglasses as she kicked off an official tour of Brazil with a visit to the ...
When Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva opens the United Nations’ General Assembly on Tuesday, he is expected to ...
The proposed reconstruction of Brazil’s BR-319 (Manaus-Porto Velho) highway (Figure 1) needs a new environmental impact ...
To figure out how to save the wetland forests of the Amazon, an ecologist from Brazil led a massive series of expeditions to ...
An underfunded agency is up against the agriculture industry’s unstoppable expansion of cash crops — and humanity’s heritage hangs in the balance.
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva mentioned the fires ravaging the rainforest back home — but not the fact they're adding ...
In many regions of the Amazon “the drought is already more intense today than it was at the worst point last year,” said Romulo Batista, a biologist and spokesperson for Greenpeace Brazil.