"For months, Indigenous Peoples have occupied government buildings and marched in the streets to demand that Belo Sun abandon its plans ..." ...

The BR-319 runs through a largely untouched stretch of the rainforest. A new initiative to pave it could put the Amazon and ...

Robson Mura, of the Mura Indigenous community, watches the sunrise at the Moyray village in Autazes, Amazonas state, Brazil, Friday, Feb. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros) (ASSOCIATED PRESS) LAGO DO ...

The Brazilian government has created four new sustainable development reserves in the Amazon as part of an effort to mitigate ...

Drought affects grain exports and essential supplies in Manaus Sixty-two municipalities in Amazonas state under emergency, over half a million affected Hydropower plants sapped, daylight saving time ...

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 ...

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 vanished.

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Brazil has committed to dredge major Amazon rivers in response to record drought that has lowered water levels and made ship passage, a key ...

Brazil's Ibama environmental regulator has authorized Petrobras (PBR) to drill three more wells in the Foz do Amazonas Basin in the country’s environmentally sensitive northern equatorial margin, ...

As world leaders conclude the United Nations’ annual climate talks in Belém, Brazil— a summit meant to accelerate global action on phasing out fossil fuels—the Brazilian government is facing mounting ...

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