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

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

A record fire season in Brazil last year caused the rate of deforestation to accelerate, in a blow to President Luiz Inacio ...

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

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

For the first time, 1 in 4 people in the country are Protestants, but the prediction of outnumbering Catholics by 2032 is ...

In a pristine corner of the Amazon, Brazilian and British scientists have spent more than two decades simulating drought to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A federal court in Brazil ordered a rancher to pay more than $50 million for destroying part of the Amazon rainforest. Additionally, the court froze the assets of Dirceu Kruger to pay for the ...

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