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 ...

Discovery of illegal palm crops comes as Grupo BBF grapples with financial problems sparked by warnings over its human rights record ...

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 ...

Likely approval of bill easing environmental licensing requirements enjoys leniency from federal government due to interest ...

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

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

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

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

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

Brazil sold exploration rights to 19 oil and gas blocks near the mouth of the Amazon river Tuesday, at the start of an ...