In August 2024, a wildfire broke out in Acará, a rural municipality in Brazil’s eastern Amazon state of Pará. Local civil ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest fell by 11% from August 2024 to July this year, the government said Thursday, even as wildfires tracked by Brazil’s space agency ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, State of Rio de Janeiro — The Brazilian government has banned most legal fires for land-clearing for 60 days in an attempt to stop the burning that has devastated parts of the Amazon ...

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

While the just-concluded United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) in the Amazonian city of Belém may have achieved ...