SANTAREM, Brazil (Reuters) - Fires in Brazil's Amazon rainforest region surged to the highest number for September in almost ...

Francisco Mateus da Silva, 67, spent an hour walking across sandbanks and dry riverbeds where he lives in the Amazon to fetch ...

Raimundinha Rodrigues Da Sousa runs the voluntary fire service for the Caititu indigenous community in the Brazilian Amazon.

(This Sept. 30 story has been corrected to fix a name in the reporting credits)) By Bruno Kelly MANACAPURU, Brazil (Reuters) ...

The environmental risks of dredging include ecosystem disruption, increased erosion, water contamination, and harm to aquatic ...

Satellites detected 41,463 fire hot spots in Brazil’s Amazon in September, the largest number since 2010, according to data ...

When Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva opens the United Nations’ General Assembly on Tuesday, he is expected to ...

The proposed reconstruction of Brazil’s BR-319 (Manaus-Porto Velho) highway (Figure 1) needs a new environmental impact ...

Queen Mary replaced her crown with a pair of sunglasses as she kicked off an official tour of Brazil with a visit to the ...

An underfunded agency is up against the agriculture industry’s unstoppable expansion of cash crops — and humanity’s heritage hangs in the balance.

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva mentioned the fires ravaging the rainforest back home — but not the fact they're adding ...

Illegal mining for critical minerals needed for the global renewable energy transition is increasingly driving deforestation ...