A trial as to whether Australian mining giant BHP is liable for one of Brazil's worst environmental disasters concludes in ...

Tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest are being paved over in Brazil to make way for a new four-lane ...

A highway cutting through the Amazon rainforest for COP30 in Brazil has sparked criticism. Thousands of acres of forest have ...

The Amazon is vital for absorbing carbon and maintaining biodiversity. Many argue that clearing land for a road goes against ...

The Brazilian government has defended the decision, saying the highway would be “sustainable”. The secretary of the state government’s infrastructure said the highway will include wildlife crossings ...

As Brazil clears the Amazon for a highway to host COP30, questions arise over whether such a move undermines the summit’s ...

The researchers highlighted two major deforestation hotspots: a northern area covering Bahia and Minas Gerais, where eucalyptus plantations and pasture expansions dominated; and a southern hotspot in ...

Commentator Adam Brooks has hit out at the "climate hypocrisy" in Brazil as workers cut down thousands of Amazon rainforest ...

As Brazilian authorities prepare for the upcoming COP30 climate summit in November in Belém, constructing a new four-lane ...

US District Judge Beryl Howell, an Obama appointee, blocked part of President Trump’s executive order barring employees from DNC law firm Perkins Coie from entering federal buildings. Beryl Howell ...

Ahead of the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil, developers are carving a four-lane highway through protected tracts of ...

Neither Porto Alegre, Brazil, nor Valencia, Spain, are in the news this week. But they have been before, and almost certainly will be again, as bouts of extreme drought, followed by deluge, become ...