Brazil recently passed a law to recognize açaí, a berry endemic to the Amazon, as a national fruit, citing concerns about ...

As the world continues to witness an increasing level of concern over climate change, carbon emissions, and the destruction ...

The Indigenous practice of agroforestry is enjoying a renaissance as the agricultural industry looks to decarbonise without ...

A multidisciplinary team of Brazilian researchers argues in an article published in the BMJ that health systems in the ...

In the first days of 2026, the Brazilian Association of Vegetable Oil Industries (ABIOVE), which represents the largest ...

In light of the climate crisis and biodiversity loss, voluntary commitments between companies, governments and civil society ...

Brazilian courts have found that the Belo Monte hydropower plant in the Amazon failed to meet environmental and social ...

In rural communities living near Brazil’s Juruá River, a tributary of the Amazon River that flows northward through the country, families of fishers take turns in guarding the entrances of oxbow lakes ...

Hundreds of Indigenous people have been protesting at a Cargill facility in Santarem, Brazil, against a decree signed in August by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

In August 2024, a wildfire broke out in Acará, a rural municipality in Brazil’s eastern Amazon state of Pará. Local civil ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — Brazil's government agreed to release stunning photos of Amazon Indians firing arrows at an airplane so that the world can better understand the threats facing one of the few ...

January 2026 was meant to be when the government of the Brazilian state of Pará would roll out a new system, initially ...