Both US supermajors have snapped up acreage in the emerging, environmentally sensitive Brazil play as they continue building ...

Critics fear oil exploration at the mouth of the Amazon River is a step backwards from Lula’s ‘zero emissions’ goal.

A growing fleet of electric boats ferries Indigenous people through the heart of the Ecuadorean Amazon, providing a cheaper ...

Philip M. Fearnside is a research professor at the National Institute for Research in Amazonia (INPA), Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil. Banner image: Exploratory oil drilling in the Amazon.

Philip Fearnside receives funding from the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), the Amazonas State Research Support Foundation (FAPEAM), and the Brazilian Research ...

Months before hosting COP30, Brazil auctioned 47 oil and gas blocks in the Amazon. Activitsts have vowed to challenge the ...

While oil prospects in the Amazon north shore attract international attention, the offer of exploration blocks around Indigenous territories goes unnoticed in Mato Grosso state. Brazil will ...

Locals near Brazil’s Fonte Boa region initially discovered the large urns sticking out of the ground where a tree was uprooted, experts said.

Petrobras, ExxonMobil, and Chevron have won exploration rights in Brazil’s Equatorial Margin, a frontier offshore oil region ...

When the water breaks in the Amazon, call the midwife Midwives in rural Brazil are more vital than ever in places where depleted rivers – a hazard of climate change – put hospitals out of reach ...

Brazil has auctioned off several land and offshore potential oil sites near the Amazon River, aiming to expand production in untapped regions despite protests from environmental and Indigenous groups ...

BRASILANDIA, Brazil — Brazil auctioned off several land and offshore potential oil sites near the Amazon River on Tuesday. It aims to expand production in untapped regions despite protests from ...