Brazil auctioned off several land and offshore potential oil sites near the Amazon River on Tuesday as it aims to expand ...

Frequent forest fires and agricultural expansion are degrading soil health in the southern Brazilian Amazon. This results in ...

Critics fear oil exploration at the mouth of the Amazon River is a step backwards from Lula’s ‘zero emissions’ goal.

Brazil sold extraction rights to 19 oil and gas blocks near the mouth of the Amazon river Tuesday, at an auction slammed by ...

A Brazilian state was set to close a massive $180 million carbon credit deal, but now faces an escalating legal battle, ...

Likely approval of bill easing environmental licensing requirements enjoys leniency from federal government due to interest ...

Indigenous people and environmental activists protested outside a luxury hotel in Rio de Janeiro where the auctions to sell oil exploration rights took place.

From Lucas do Rio Verde, a major agricultural hub in the state of Mato Grosso, the railway would be built from scratch, ...

A large-scale federal operation to remove cattle raised illegally in the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve has triggered ...

“The Amazon’s hydrological cycle is becoming more extreme,” co-author Roel Brienen of the University of Leeds said in a ...

Scientists have used clues locked into tree rings to reveal major changes in the Amazon's rainfall cycle over the last 40 ...

Brazil sold exploration rights to 19 oil and gas blocks near the mouth of the Amazon river Tuesday, at the start of an ...