Brazil's Petrobras has obtained approval from the country's environmental agency to clear corals from the underside of the ...

In the early 2000s, deforestation levels in the Brazilian Amazon rose so tremendously that, faced with both national and ...

The technical staff at Brazil's environmental agency Ibama recommended that the body deny authorization for Petrobras to ...

Petrobras obtained approval from the country's environmental agency to clear corals from the underside of the drilling vessel ...

Despite presiding over a major cut-down of Amazon deforestation, Brazil's left-wing president has raised environmentalists' concerns by greenlighting expanded oil exploration in the crucial rainforest ...

(AP Photo/Bruna Prado, File) FILE - Water flows in at the point where the river meets the sea in the Bailique Archipelago, district of Macapa, state of Amapa, northern Brazil, Sept. 12, 2022.

Despite his climate leadership stance ahead of COP30, Brazilian President Lula da Silva is pushing to approve oil exploration at the mouth of the Amazon. Lula argues that oil revenues will fund ...

A fire at an electricity substation has caused four days of blackouts in most of northern Brazil’s Amapa state, disrupting the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. The outage began on ...

Lula's remarks come after talks with Davi Alcolumbre, the newly sworn-in president of Brazil's Senate and a vehement defender of oil exploration in his home state of Amapa. The so-called ...

Brazil's Ibama Staff Recommend Against Petrobras ... drilling license for the Foz do Amazonas area off the coast of Amapa state, citing environmental concerns. The oil company appealed soon ...