The Amazon rainforest could face a renewed surge of deforestation as efforts grow to overturn a long-standing ban that has protected it. The ban - which prohibits the sale of soya grown on land ...

Indigenous people in Brazil have marched in the capital, Brasilia, to protest what they say are violations of their land ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Deforestation in ...

BELEM, Brazil (AP) — Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Tuesday put forward his vision for how the Amazon rainforest should be protected, a future that didn’t depend on donations from ...

Exploratory oil drilling off the coast of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest is reshaping life in Oiapoque, a small city in the poor ...

Every time humans cut into the Amazon rainforest or burn or destroy parts of it, they’re making people sick. It’s an idea Indigenous people have lived by for thousands of years. Now a new study in the ...

Tropical rainforests represent one of our planet’s most critical natural assets in the fight against climate change, storing approximately 25% of all terrestrial carbon despite covering just 6% of ...

Reports on the health and vitality of the Amazon — often dubbed as Earth’s lungs — have been grim for years. Record drought ...

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