Brazilian courts have found that the Belo Monte hydropower plant in the Amazon failed to meet environmental and social requirements.

Hundreds of Indigenous people have been protesting in northern Brazil for two weeks outside the port terminal of US ...

Brazil announced on Friday the suspension of dredging operations on a major Amazon tributary, after Indigenous communities ...

BELEM, Brazil (Reuters) -On the banks of the Guama River where the city of Belem presses up against the vast green Amazon, Brazil is pioneering an economic model designed to help locals profit from a ...

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 ...

When President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil returned to power, he had an ambitious goal: restoring his country’s image as a champion of climate action. He vowed to slash Brazil’s emissions of ...

Major soy traders like Cargill, ADM and Bunge announced their withdrawal from the Amazon soy moratorium, a move that could increase deforestation in the biome by 30% by 2045. Behind the exodus are ...

As we broadcast from the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil, we are joined by one of Brazil’s most prominent scientists, Carlos Nobre, who says the Amazon now produces more carbon emissions than it ...