As Brazil’s government seeks to boost its environmental credentials by hosting the United Nations’ climate summit, a proposal to build a railway through the Amazon has threatened to tarnish that image ...

Brazilian authorities have raged against comments by Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz in which he appeared to look down on Belem, a city on the edge of the Amazon rainforest ...

BELEM, Brazil (AP) — In the run-up to the annual U.N. climate conference, set to take place in Brazil’s Amazon in November, the construction of a road is drawing attention, with critics arguing it ...

They found that properties with secure land rights deforested less and were more likely to comply with Brazil's Forest Code, ...

On the banks of the Guama River where the city of Belem presses up against the vast green Amazon, Brazil is pioneering an ...