By Shanna Hanbury Brazil’s Senate approved an environmental licensing bill that could expedite major infrastructure projects, ...

Brazilian farmers want to end a ban on planting soya on cleared land, which critics say would spur deforestation.

At COP30, debates over shrinking public funding highlighted why projects such as Mejuruá matter as credible, community-based ...

The Ferrograo railway project would transport commodities including corn and soybeans nearly 621 miles from a city on the southern edge of the rainforest to a port along a major tributary of the ...

Environmental agents from Brazil’s Chico Mendes Institute on Saturday released thousands of giant Amazon River turtle hatchlings into the waters of ...

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 ...

The health of the Amazon forest and river are intertwined. By storing carbon, the forest can be a key part of climate solutions but plans for expanding hydropower could undermine that climate solution ...

The Tapajós supported Indigenous people for millennia, but now vessels, pollution and waves may disrupt their lives.

From the depths of Brazil's Amazon to Indonesia's rainforests, some of the world's most isolated peoples are being squeezed by roads, miners and drug traffickers — a crisis unfolding far from public ...

The dark purple berry enjoyed promotion as a sustainable “bioeconomy” product at the COP30 climate summit in Brazil’s ...

Fueled by açaí flowers, a bee's resin once used for war wounds is now evolving as a new ingredient for cosmetics.