Brazil is shifting Amazon conservation by tackling poverty: a new ARPA program backs forest communities, showing livelihoods ...

Divina Viana is checking her boat as it’s about to take foreign tourists along the Rio Negro, or Black River, in the Brazilian Amazon. This is her home. “I was born and raised in the Amazon, in the ...

The continued failure to halt the BR-319 highway cutting through the Brazilian Amazon is an example of the systemic problem identified by Hannah Arendt in her study of the minister of transportation ...

BRASILIA — In a visit to see the damage caused by drought and fire in the Amazon, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva pledged to pave a road that environmentalists and some in his own ...

MANAUS, Brazil (AP) — Drought is devastating Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, and some rivers are falling to historic lows. Images of one of the Amazon River’s main tributaries, the Negro River, show just ...

By Fabio Teixeira and Marta Nogueira RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan 8 (Reuters) - Brazilian oil regulator ANP has told Petrobras that it cannot resume offshore drilling in the Foz do Amazonas basin until it ...

BELEM, Brazil (Reuters) -On the banks of the Guama River where the city of Belem presses up against the vast green Amazon, Brazil is pioneering an economic model designed to help locals profit from a ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest fell by 11% from August 2024 to July this year, the government said Thursday, even as wildfires tracked by Brazil’s space agency surged ...

Smoke rises from a fire near a logging area in the Transamazonica highway region, in the municipality of Humaita, Amazonas state, Brazil, Sept. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros, File) AGUA CLARA, ...

BRASILIA, April 19 (Reuters) - Brazil should not explore oil reserves in the Amazon region, because of the dangerous impact on local communities, Indigenous leader Raoni Metuktire, of the Kayapo ...

State-run energy firm Petrobras faces resistance from Indigenous groups for its goal to open Brazil's northern coast to oil drilling. An environmental agency denied Petrobras a license for exploratory ...

LAGO DO SOARES, Brazil (AP) — Indigenous leader Filipe Gabriel Mura stands before Soares Lake in Brazil’s Amazon, looking out at the amber waters that are surrounded by a jagged shoreline that has ...