Hugging the borders of Colombia, Venezuela, and Peru, the sprawling landmass of Brazil is the Big Daddy of Latin America.

By Karen Toro, Alexander Villegas and Valerie Volcovici BELEM, Brazil (Reuters) -After journeying for weeks from a glacier in the Andes to Brazil’s tropical coast, a boat carrying dozens of Indigenous ...

Deep in the Peruvian Amazon, the Kakataibo Indigenous Guard patrols their ancestral land armed with spears, machetes and a ...

Indigenous protesters at UN climate talks in Brazil have zeroed in on a major grievance: A planned railway that would stretch ...

A new agreement that aims to streamline the monitoring and protection of the Amazon Rainforest was announced at the COP30 ...

On the banks of the Guama River where the city of Belem presses up against the vast green Amazon, Brazil is pioneering an ...

Brazil’s leader, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, says he wants the future of the Amazon rainforest to be built around a major fund that will pay countries to keep their forests standing BELEM, ...

BRASILIA, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest fell 11.08% in the 12 months through July compared with the same period a year earlier, hitting an 11-year low, government data ...

•Donald Trump has reignited criticism of Brazil over the building of a four-lane highway for the Cop30 climate summit in Belem •Brazil has defended the project as sustainable, while conservationists ...

BELEM, Brazil (AP) — Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Tuesday put forward his vision for how the Amazon rainforest should be protected, a future that didn’t depend on donations from ...

AUTAZES, Brazil—In the heart of the Amazon rainforest, workers are preparing to dig a vertical shaft as wide as a subway tunnel half a mile down into the ground. It isn’t gold or oil hidden here in a ...