Hundreds of Indigenous people have been protesting at a Cargill facility in Santarem, Brazil, against a decree signed in ...

Brazil is the world’s most biodiverse country, and the title is not closely contested in absolute numbers: between 10% and 15 ...

Brazil has declared the acai berry a national fruit, a move to stamp its ownership on the popular "superfood" as concerns ...

January 2026 was meant to be when the government of the Brazilian state of Pará would roll out a new system, initially ...

Brazil’s biggest soy producers have withdrawn from the soy moratorium, a pledge to avoid Amazon deforestation.

Aerial view of triggered forest fire and deforestation for planting soya beans in the Amazon Rainforest, Vilhena - Rondonia state [Courtesy Andre Dib, WWF Brazil] Since 2007, Marcelo Salazar has been ...

Brazil is shifting Amazon conservation by tackling poverty: a new ARPA program backs forest communities, showing livelihoods ...

Between 2020 and 2022, soy acreage expanded from 37.2 to 41.2 million hectares, while soy-linked deforestation rose from 6,35 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Brazil state-run oil giant Petrobras said a drilling fluid leak off the coast of the Amazon region posed no environmental damage ...

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 ...

ITUPIRANGA, Brazil (Reuters) -A narrow skiff slides among massive rocky outcroppings on the Tocantins River, where the catfish and peacock bass throng in the eddies during the waxing moon. For most of ...