Brazil’s environmental goals suffered a major setback in May as deforestation in the Amazon surged 92% compared to the same ...

Brazil's environmental authority has approved one of the final requirements for state-run oil company Petrobras to proceed ...

Brazilian prosecutors filed Thursday criminal charges against the man accused of ordering the 2022 killings of Indigenous ...

British journalist Dom Phillips had been working for years on a book about saving the Amazon when he was killed in the region ...

AGUA CLARA, Brazil — Forest loss in Brazil’s Amazon dropped by 30.6% compared to the previous year, officials said Wednesday, the lowest level of destruction in nine years. In a 12-month span ...

In Brazil’s Amazon, people are trapped in a vicious cycle in which deforestation begets poverty, and poverty begets deforestation. Already, more than a fifth of the country’s rainforest has ...

As a result, Bolivia lost 14,800 square kilometres of forest in 2024, the second-most of any country, up 200% from 2023. It lost more than the Democratic Republic of Congo did, despite having just 40% ...

Brazil's Minister of the Environment and Climate Change Marina Silva takes part in the 11th Meeting of Environment Ministers ...

Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest slowed by nearly half compared to the year before, according to government satellite data released Wednesday. It’s the largest reduction since 2016 ...

Forest loss reached 371 square miles during the period, the second-highest total for May since the current monitoring system ...