The health of the Amazon forest and river are intertwined. By storing carbon, the forest can be a key part of climate solutions but plans for expanding hydropower could undermine that climate solution ...

After four decades of research, a scientist returns to the Amazon in an effort to change the behavior that has lead to years of environmental crisis.

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

This year’s U.N. climate negotiations were seen by activists as a letdown. But a Times reporter found some encouraging signs ...

Record-Breaking Carbon Emissions Transform the Amazon from Guardian to Threat The Amazon rainforest experienced its most ...

Heatwaves and droughts show the starkest reporting failure. Almost all recorded incidents came from Brazil, even though both ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazilian authorities on Tuesday railed 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 ...

Nations sealed a modest agreement at the UN climate summit in the Brazilian Amazon on Saturday as many countries swallowed ...

Indigenous protesters at UN climate talks in Brazil have zeroed in on a major grievance: A planned railway that would stretch ...

A Landmark Court Ruling Looms Over U.S. Absence at COP30 Sea-Level Rise Accelerates in New Jersey, Raising Coastal Flooding ...

Burning fossil fuels and forests releases the well-known greenhouse gases that drive anthropogenic climate change. That burning also produces soot, a fine black particle that harms health and ...

Reporting directly from COP30 in Belém, Brazil, this episode details the deadlocks over fossil fuel phase-outs and the ...