Environmentalists have blasted the move as “taking place in the context of the greatest destruction of forests on the Latin American continent in recent years,” Greens MEP Anna Cavazzini said in a ...

Water is the fundamental element that nourishes the Amazon rainforest. Its rivers are home to a sacred world that gives ...

The period between the end of the rubber boom and the onset of the colonisation frenzy that began in the 1960s was a time of ...

The Brazilian government levied penalties against meatpacking companies, including JBS, for using meat suppliers benefiting ...

As the COP29 climate talks started Monday in Azerbaijan, an Indigenous leader half a world away is literally towering over ...

Amazon’s giant fishing economy is under threat - Low water levels are making it extremely difficult for fishers to transport ...

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon dropped by 30.6% over the past year, reaching the lowest level of destruction in nine ...

In Brazil´s Amazonas state, almost 6,000 riverine dwellers authorized to fish have reported a significant drop in production ...

Unlike other aquatic species of the Amazon, such as river dolphins, the pirarucu — also known as arapaima — historically have ...

Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon dropped to its lowest level in nearly a decade ... such as building new highways and oil ...

FILE - A river borders an area that has been illegally deforested by land-grabbers and cattle farmers in an extractive ...

The Brazilian government said Thursday that forest loss in its Amazon region fell more than 30 percent compared to the year ...