The Lula administration has announced plans to increase fines for violators. New report uncovers disturbing factor driving ...

In recent years we have read much about the destruction of Amazon rainforests by logging, cattle ranching, soya farming and ...

Brazilian authorities are preparing to remove illegal gold miners from an Indigenous reservation in the Amazon rainforest ...

The city of Belém is striving to be ready for next year’s UN climate conference and bring delegates closer to nature ...

A report suggests that further degradation of the Amazon could turn one of the world’s most important carbon sinks into a ...

The Brazilian Amazon experienced its smallest amount of yearly deforestation in nearly a decade, President Luiz Inacio Lula ...

The White House says President Joe Biden will become the first sitting president to visit the Amazon rainforest later this ...

Yearly deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon fell by almost a third since August 2023, the Brazilian government said on Wednesday, plummeting to a nine-year low after historic droughts and ...

Brazil’s environment minister, a renowned former activist, helped push climate change to the top of President Lula’s agenda.

The world's first superstar hippo lives in a zoo in Thailand. Moo Deng shot to fame soon after she was born in July this year ...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian authorities are preparing to remove illegal gold miners from an Indigenous reservation in the Amazon rainforest ... second-most illegal mining in Brazil, according ...

Over the last century, the Amazon rainforest -- which covers nearly 40 ... due to the spread of agriculture and cattle ranching, logging and mining, and urban sprawl. Lula has pledged to put ...