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 ...

By Rhett Ayers Butler [( Satellite alerts suggest deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is continuing to fall, putting the ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest fell by 11% from August 2024 to July this year, the government said Thursday, even as wildfires tracked by Brazil’s space agency surged ...

Brazil’s government has announced a $75 million investment in the BR-319 highway, a move environmentalists fear could speed up Amazon deforestation.

AUTAZES, Brazil—In the heart of the Amazon rainforest, workers are preparing to dig a vertical shaft as wide as a subway tunnel half a mile down into the ground. It isn’t gold or oil hidden here in a ...

The number of fires shows no signs of easing as Brazil’s Roraima faces unprecedented blazes, and several Amazonian countries, including Guyana, Suriname and Venezuela, registered record-high outbreaks ...

To figure out how to save the wetland forests of the Amazon, an ecologist from Brazil led a massive series of expeditions to sample trees across the vast rain-forest. Climate extremes like floods and ...

Deep in the Amazonas region of Brazil, Mayleane Melo leans on her red sofa to ease the pain of a contraction. Her baby is coming. Next to her is Tabita dos Santos Moraes - one of hundreds of midwives ...

As world leaders conclude the United Nations’ annual climate talks in Belém, Brazil— a summit meant to accelerate global action on phasing out fossil fuels—the Brazilian government is facing mounting ...

Brazil’s government announced Wednesday that it will invest $75 million in the BR-319 highway cutting through the Amazon rainforest, a project environmentalists say could accelerate deforestation and ...