In northern Brazil, a debate over cattle and conservation is unfolding on Bananal Island. Federal authorities have ordered the removal of herds from protected Indigenous territory, arguing they ...

By Shanna Hanbury Brazil has increased wildfire spending and has hired a record number of federal firefighters in ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Thousands have migrated to Oiapoque after Petrobras secured offshore drilling licenses, hoping an oil boom will ...

Brazil’s antitrust regulator suspended a key mechanism for rainforest protection, the Amazon Soy Moratorium, on Aug. 18, less than three months before the nation hosts the COP30 climate summit. The ...

ALTAMIRA, Brazil — If much of the Amazon forest is to wither away, this is the town where that end was foretold. During its campaign to develop the region, Brazil’s former military dictatorship chose ...

MANAUS, Brazil (AP) — Months before hosting the U.N.’s first climate talks held in the Amazon, Brazil is fast-tracking a series of controversial decisions that undercut President Luiz Inácio Lula da ...