Brazil’s Belém is set to play host to around 50,000 people during the COP30, the UN’s annual climate summit, in November.

Scientists trace the rapid spread of Oropouche virus beyond the Amazon, revealing its evolution through reassortment and the ...

A scientific report released Monday by the organization MapBiomas showed that 65% of mining activities carried out in the Brazilian Amazon basin were ... illegal mining in Brazil had grown 495% ...

In the 1960s Brazil’s military rulers decided to open up the Amazon Basin—it was, they argued, the nation’s destiny. Land speculators poured in, feeding a classic real estate bubble.

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva ... We’ve already seen the Belo Monte disaster and we won’t accept drilling at the Amazon Basin now.” ...

Satellite images appear to show a new highway cutting through the rainforest in the Brazilian state set to host COP30.

While noting that without Petrobras, Brazil would need to import oil, Lula also defended the company's plan to drill wells in the Amazon Basin, citing the region's potential oil reservoirs ...

The Negro river's low level reflects has been caused by a severe drought that has devastated the Amazon rainforest and other ...

In Brazil, home to about 60 per cent of the Amazon rainforest, fossil fuel drilling and mining are prohibited in Indigenous ...

Carrying two logs, the young man seemed calm as he emerged in Bela Rosa, a community along the Purus River in the southwestern Amazon area of Brazil. In footage taken at the scene he appears to be ...

Join this exceptional journey exploring Brazil’s most celebrated ecological ... Travel up the Rio Negro, the least inhabited river in the Amazon river basin. Throughout the cruise, you will ...