President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva wanted to use rainforest conservation successes to justify taking a lead in global ...

Much of Brazil is burning as tens of thousands of fires rage around the country, half of them in the Amazon rainforest. Exacerbated by a severe drought, the fires threaten one of the world’s most ...

Colombian authorities said Sunday they were fighting forest fires across seven departments, as a scorching drought fanned ...

Brazil’s National Department of Transportation Infrastructure (DNIT) submitted to the Federal Regional Court of the 1st ...

A team of Brazilian Greenpeace environmental activists on Friday placed a protect banner on a sandbank that has emerged in ...

Brazilian Legal Amazonia (BLA)—which comprises the entirety of the Amazon Basin located in Brazil and vast adjacent swathes ...

Forest loss is thought to have played a part in record low rainfall across South America this year, in a sign that ...

Brazil has opted against launching a dedicated sovereign Amazon bond, choosing instead to utilize its environmental and ...

Brazil has no plan to launch a dedicated sovereign Amazon bond, a senior treasury official told Reuters, and will instead fund protection of the world's biggest rainforest via its new environmental ...

The Amazon rainforest is in deep trouble. Labeling it a “crisis” however seems too hackneyed and not descriptive enough ...

The carcass of a baby dolphin lay on the sand bank left exposed by the receding waters in an Amazon lake that has been drying ...

Brazil’s supreme court has ordered that X ... which operates across the country but is particularly key in the Amazon, hit out at the move to freeze its finances, alleging the order “is ...