Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will meet with environmental agency Ibama either this week or the next to ...

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Brazilian state-run oil firm Petrobras has confirmed the presence of oil in a well at its offshore Buzios field, the firm ...

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is defending oil exploration near the mouth of the Amazon River as a way to ...

The buritis, or moriche palms, are fighting for their lives in the streambed now lined with scorched earth. For two years now ...

Chinese electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer BYD secured mining rights for two plots in Minas Gerais, Brazil's lithium-rich ...

An international team of scientists has tentatively found some of the earliest indications of alcoholic drink production in the Patos Lagoon region of Brazil. State-of-the-art analysis of pottery ...

Greenhouse gas emissions, particularly from fossil fuel combustion and deforestation, increase global temperatures. Rising temperatures, in turn, cause moisture to evaporate at a faster rate. This ...

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Some efforts to preserve or rewild natural habitats are shifting harmful land use to other parts of the world – and this ...