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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

Vast swaths of Amazon rainforest and large meandering rivers ... such as illegal logging or gold mining. Over the past two years, President Lula has cut deforestation and announced ambitious ...

The Munduruku reservation has the second-most illegal mining in Brazil, according to a report seen by Reuters from government agency Censipam, which manages operations protecting the Amazon.

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

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 ...

For more than a month, a team of some 270 firefighters has been battling a wall of flames consuming two Indigenous territories on the edge of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest ... such as cattle ranching and ...