Brazil’s biggest soy producers have withdrawn from the soy moratorium, a pledge to avoid Amazon deforestation.

Brazil is the world’s most biodiverse country, and the title is not closely contested in absolute numbers: between 10% and 15 ...

Brazilian courts have found that the Belo Monte hydropower plant in the Amazon failed to meet environmental and social ...

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 ...

Brazil is shifting Amazon conservation by tackling poverty: a new ARPA program backs forest communities, showing livelihoods can reduce deforestation.

Hundreds of Indigenous people have been protesting in northern Brazil for two weeks outside the port terminal of US ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - A person walks on the BR-319 highway through smoke from a forest fire that reaches Careiro Castanho in Brazil's Amazonas ...

Brazil has declared the acai berry a national fruit, a move to stamp its ownership on the popular "superfood" as concerns ...

RIO DE JANEIRO -- Backed by military aircraft, Brazilian troops on Saturday were deploying in the Amazon to fight fires that have swept the region and prompted anti-government protests as well as an ...

World leaders and delegates are meeting in the northern Brazilian city of Belém for COP30, this year's major UN climate summit. Brazil's Amazon rainforest has shrunk by an area as big as Spain over ...