The number of fires in Brazil's Amazon rainforest region for the month of August surged to the highest level since 2010, government data showed on Sunday, after a record drought that has been ...

The number of fires in Brazil's Amazon rainforest region surged to a record high for the month of July in almost two decades, government data showed on Thursday, amid a drought in the region ...

Brazil: Deforestation hit record high in run-up to election 10/07/2022 October 7, 2022. New figures have highlighted the devastation caused by President Bolsonaro's attacks on environmental rights.

The 2022 figures are from the final year of Jair Bolsonaro’s presidency in Brazil, which saw high rates of deforestation. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who took office in January, has ...

Germany and Norway gave billions of dollars to Brazil’s Amazon Fund, created in 2008 to promote sustainable use of the rain forest, but those countries have frozen that support.

A vital Amazonian superfood suddenly vanishes, leaving thousands of Indigenous and extractivist families reeling.

Researchers found over 100 dolphins dead in a remote lake in Brazil's Amazon rainforest. Triple-digit water temperatures and an ongoing drought likely caused the deaths, experts said.

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest has decreased by 46 percent compared to the previous year, government satellite data released on Wednesday showed. Brazil is the world's fifth-largest ...

In Brazil’s Amazon, people are trapped in a vicious cycle in which deforestation begets poverty, and poverty begets deforestation. Already, more than a fifth of the country’s rainforest has ...

The Amazon Rainforest is home to some of the most exotic and beautiful animal life on the planet. Recently, scientists have discovered another rainforest resident deep within Brazil’s palm-dense Juruá ...