A feature documents how Belém’s waterfront, markets, and neighborhood streets reveal the city’s character at the meeting of ...

Police in Brazil have targeted a group suspected of using chemicals to clear a vast area of the Amazon rainforest in Para.

Brazil’s Supreme Court has upheld state laws denying tax incentives to farmers who adhered to the country's soy moratorium.

Brazil is becoming a key global battleground for rare earth minerals that are crucial for renewable energy and technology.

SAO PAULO (AP) — The surge in gold prices in recent years has fueled a renewed mining rush in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, accelerating deforestation in protected areas and driving mercury ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Amazon rainforest. Neil Palmer / CIAT The Brazilian Amazon is on pace to see forest clearing hit a record low this year, ...

World leaders and delegates are meeting in the northern Brazilian city of Belém for COP30, this year's major UN climate summit. Brazil's Amazon rainforest has shrunk by an area as big as Spain over ...

Forest destruction fell to 2,874sq km, an area slightly larger than Luxembourg, in the 12 months through July. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The forests of the Brazilian Amazon are, by any measure, among the most important ecosystems on Earth. They absorb carbon on a planetary scale, regulate rainfall across South America, and shelter ...

SAO PAULO — The administration of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva frequently touts how it has sharply slowed deforestation in the Amazon, and indeed it has. When the next official annual ...

Three 2026 studies reveal that the Amazon can regrow quickly, but deforestation and warming could trigger a system-wide ...

SAO PAULO — The surge in gold prices in recent years has fueled a renewed mining rush in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, accelerating deforestation in protected areas and driving mercury contamination to ...