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

Brazilian farmers want to end a ban on planting soya on cleared land, which critics say would spur deforestation.

Deep in the Amazon rainforest, an unusual experiment is deliberately pumping out greenhouse gas to measure how flora and ...

The Amazon rainforest, often described as the lungs of the planet, is teeming with life. Thousands of Amazonian land ...

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

Satellite images appear to show a new highway cutting through the rainforest in the Brazilian state set to host the 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference. The images, taken in by Copernicus ...

Highway projects bring destruction to the rainforest and surrounding ecosystems in South America. One connecting Brazil and ...

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.

CATALAO, Brazil (AP) — Santa Claus braved the sticky heat of the Amazon rainforest this weekend, taking two boats to bring gifts to children in a village near the Brazilian city of Manaus. The visit ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Criminal gangs are operating in over a third of municipalities in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest driving a boom in violence, according to a report published Wednesday by a prominent ...

A video authentically shows a UFO taking off from the Amazon rainforest in 1987. A rumor that circulated online in the latter ...