The amendment eliminates the requirement that landowners or companies get state authorization before converting forested land ...

Dozens of indigenous nations from different countries are calling for an oil drilling ban in the world's largest rainforest ...

As you approach his Capoto/Jarina Indigenous territory in Mato Grosso state, large single-crop farms of soybean or maize give way to lush, verdant rainforest ... The Brazilian Amazon was ravaged ...

Since the late 1960s, during Brazil’s military dictatorship (1964-85), the federal government has pushed for infrastructure in the Amazon Rainforest ... the Madeira River Basin dams.

Illegal gold miners have been moving into Amapá in the wake of federal raids on mining hotspots in other parts of the ...

Criminal groups behind are placing the region’s vast biodiversity, fragile ecosystems, and Indigenous ways of life, under ...

The rainforest in the Amazon basin transpires vast amounts of gaseous ... as it rapidly declines when exposed to light conditions. The CAFE-Brazil measurement campaign provided data for two ...

Pupy (pronounced POOH’-pee in Spanish) embarked on her arduous 2,700-kilometer (1,670-mile) journey on Monday, from the ...

The Buenos Aires mayor’s office said in a statement that the last elephant living in the Argentine city’s “Ecopark” arrived ...

Hydropower is outdated and harmful—causing deforestation, reduced rainfall, energy loss, and water insecurity. Safer, more ...