By Shanna Hanbury Brazil’s Senate approved an environmental licensing bill that could expedite major infrastructure projects, ...

Most people enjoy spotting dolphins on vacation, but if you visited Brazil in 2023, you would not have wanted to see the ...

Environmental agents from Brazil’s Chico Mendes Institute on Saturday released thousands of giant Amazon River turtle hatchlings into the waters of ...

At COP30, debates over shrinking public funding highlighted why projects such as Mejuruá matter as credible, community-based models for Amazon conservation.

One small Indigenous territory is currently the site of roughly 70% of deforestation in Indigenous territories across the ...

A world-first single-dose vaccine against the dengue virus, manufactured and approved for use in Brazil, will especially ...

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 ...

They found that properties with secure land rights deforested less and were more likely to comply with Brazil's Forest Code, which limits deforestation to 20% of each property's area.

First came the floods, then the fire. As he officially opened COP30, Brazil’s president, Lula Inacio da Silva said that by ...

The Tapajós supported Indigenous people for millennia, but now vessels, pollution and waves may disrupt their lives.

The dark purple berry enjoyed promotion as a sustainable “bioeconomy” product at the COP30 climate summit in Brazil’s ...

From the depths of Brazil's Amazon to Indonesia's rainforests, some of the world's most isolated peoples are being squeezed by roads, miners and drug traffickers — a crisis unfolding far from public ...