A large-scale federal operation to remove cattle raised illegally in the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve has triggered ...

The summit will address how the nations can protect the Amazon rainforest from threats such as organized ... context is totally different today," Brazil's Environment and Climate Change Minister ...

With the first U.N. climate talks in the Amazon set for November, Brazil is fast-tracking a series of controversial decisions ...

Amazonian fish are facing an alarming new threat. A series of extreme droughts is drying up the region's rivers and wetlands ...

Other environmental threats are large hydroelectric dams ... A debate over drilling for oil near the mouth of the Amazon River, where Brazil is weighing whether to develop a potentially huge ...

A new bill recently approved by the Senate in Brazil undermines the licensing of projects that can have huge environmental ...

SAO PAULO, Brazil — With little fanfare and virtually ... of cattle ranchers who had illegally converted swathes of Amazon rainforest into pasture land. The new legislation, which was passed ...

Brazil is a world leader in biofuel production, but the environmental sustainability ... contribute to discussions about threats the sector poses to the Amazon rainforest, and its overall impact ...

Supported by By Jack Nicas and Flávia Milhorance Reporting from Rio de Janeiro Brazil ... and other environmental organizations. Chemical deforestation poses a more insidious threat than ...

Brazil has committed to dredge major Amazon ... record-breaking drought in the Amazon has caused environmental havoc and left entire communities stranded. Water levels in the major Amazonian ...

If vast fires consuming the Amazon represented the global threat posed by Jair Bolsonaro ... a former head of Brazil’s environmental protection agency. But this optimism is tempered by a new ...

Today, JBS owns dozens of plants in the Amazon and several investigations, including by Brazil’s environmental regulator ... she has received death threats since April for speaking publicly ...