Ranchers can earn an average $50 a year from raising cattle on a hectare of land in the Brazilian Amazon, according to ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AA) - The 30th UN climate change conference, or COP30, officially opened Monday in Belem, Brazil on the ...

Demoted after leading Brazil's largest seizure of illegal lumber in the Amazon last year, police chief Alexandre Saraiva ...

Brazilian police with support from Interpol have destroyed 277 dredges used in illegal gold mining along the Madeira River in ...

Rubber tapper Manoel Magno, 71, walks through the jungle surrounding his house on the river island of Cotijuba in the Amazon, ...

Brazil, which is hosting the 30th U.N. Climate Change Conference this month, wants to show the world it is a leader in ...

Brazil’s leader, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, says he wants the future of the Amazon rainforest to be built around a ...

At COP, Brazil is presenting itself as an Amazon defender. But a key measure to slow deforestation is in grave peril.

In Oiapoque, Brazil, hopes that oil will transform the economy hangs in air, after the government granted state-owned company ...

The United Nations climate conference opened Monday in the Brazilian Amazon with pleas for the world to keep up the fight against global warming, even as the United States turns its back.Those efforts ...

Belem is, paradoxically, one of Brazil’s least tree-lined cities. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

Brazil's Amazonas state is grappling with rapidly diminishing water levels, beaching dozens of boats and homes. It is anticipated that by the time 2023 takes its final bow, 500,000 people will be ...