Brazil auctioned off several land and offshore potential oil sites near the Amazon River on Tuesday as it aims to expand ...

Frequent forest fires and agricultural expansion are degrading soil health in the southern Brazilian Amazon. This results in ...

Critics fear oil exploration at the mouth of the Amazon River is a step backwards from Lula’s ‘zero emissions’ goal.

Brazil sold extraction rights to 19 oil and gas blocks near the mouth of the Amazon river Tuesday (Jun 17), at an auction ...

A Brazilian state was set to close a massive $180 million carbon credit deal, but now faces an escalating legal battle, ...

With the first U.N. climate talks in the Amazon set for November, Brazil is fast-tracking a series of controversial decisions ...

From Lucas do Rio Verde, a major agricultural hub in the state of Mato Grosso, the railway would be built from scratch, ...

A large-scale federal operation to remove cattle raised illegally in the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve has triggered ...

“The Amazon’s hydrological cycle is becoming more extreme,” co-author Roel Brienen of the University of Leeds said in a ...

Indigenous people and environmental activists protested outside a luxury hotel in Rio de Janeiro where the auctions to sell oil exploration rights took place.

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

Scientists have used clues locked into tree rings to reveal major changes in the Amazon's rainfall cycle over the last 40 ...