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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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