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 ...

The South American nation is drawing scrutiny for opening a large swath of ocean to oil companies as it prepares to hold the ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

Brazil sold extraction rights to 19 oil and gas blocks near the mouth of the Amazon river Tuesday, at an auction slammed by ...