A scientific report released Monday by the organization MapBiomas showed that 65% of mining activities carried out in the Brazilian Amazon basin were ... illegal mining in Brazil had grown 495% ...

With the first U.N. climate talks in the Amazon approaching, thousands of Indigenous people marched Tuesday in Brazil's ...

On the edge of a lonely dirt road that winds through farmland and forest in the eastern Amazon Basin of Brazil stands a simple marble slab. It’s a memorial to a local rainforest defender who was ...

Several Brazilian ministries have joined efforts in a desperate attempt to impede the gigantic Amazon basin and its fluvial network from continuing to lose water, result of a scorching drought and ...

The Negro river's low level reflects has been caused by a severe drought that has devastated the Amazon rainforest and other ...

Thirteen percent of Brazil´s territory consists of recognized Indigenous lands, most of it in the Amazon. In the past two years, the Amazon basin has suffered its worst drought on record ...