Brazil’s plans to build ports and roads to help move grains, beef and iron ore from the rainforest echo a development vision ...

The Amazon Rainforest, often referred to as the “lungs of the Earth,” plays an essential role in our planet’s ecosystem. Its ...

It takes lithium and cobalt to build the batteries that power electric vehicles and e-bikes, nickel and rare earth elements ...

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights ordered the Ecuadorian government to protect uncontacted Indigenous groups from oil operations and to leave oil in the ground underneath their lands ...

Along the Amazonian coastline in Brazil’s northeastern state of Maranhão, plans are underway for a port project that will ...

LAGO DO SOARES, Brazil — Indigenous leader Filipe Gabriel Mura stands before Soares Lake in Brazil’s Amazon, looking out ... s another like it in the world.” Mura and others from the tribe ...

"I doubt there’s another like it in the world.” Mura and others from the tribe fear that ... It is planned near the mouth of the Madeira River, which flows into the Amazon River. The build-out will ...

In Brazil, home to about 60 per cent of the Amazon rainforest, fossil fuel drilling and mining are prohibited in Indigenous lands. The country’s Congress and the Supreme Court have, however, been ...

A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built ... more than 50,000 people - including world leaders - at the conference in ...

The Amazon rainforest is crucial to mitigating global climate change, as it can store up to 200 billion tons of carbon, according to the World Wildlife Fund. The Amazon is also vital to the global ...

For decades, the Congo Basin was largely invisible to climate science. Now, a new generation of Central African researchers ...