By Constance Malleret Twenty years ago, a meeting of scientists that included Brazilian climatologist Carlos Nobre coined the ...

Brazilian officials on Thursday announced a sharp drop in deforestation rates, pushing back on one of the arguments that the Trump administration used last week to justify additional tariffs on the ...

The events underscore the challenge of balancing conservation, Indigenous interests and pressure from agribusiness, one of Brazil’s most powerful sectors. Brazil is the world’s largest beef producer, ...

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 ...

To figure out how to save the wetland forests of the Amazon, an ecologist from Brazil led a massive series of expeditions to sample trees across the vast rain-forest. Climate extremes like floods and ...

The Brazilian government has committed $617.5 million to boost ecological investment in the Amazon. Eight banks have pledged an additional $2 billion. Announced Monday, this funding ...

SANTAREM, Brazil, Oct 1 (Reuters) - Fires in Brazil's Amazon rainforest region surged to the highest number for September in almost a decade and a half, preliminary government data showed on Tuesday, ...

Abelardo de la Espriella, set to be Colombia's president, has intensified debate over the future of the Amazon.

For decades, foreign firms established settlements in the Brazilian Amazon to support extractive activities, only to eventually abandon the buildings and workers. The remains show human resilience as ...

(Bloomberg) -- When the United Nations climate conference COP29 kicks off Monday in Baku, Azerbaijan, attendees will be grappling with the reelection of former US President Donald Trump. Countries ...

A major geographical wonder in South America, the Amazon River flows some 4,000 miles from Peru to Brazil's Atlantic coast, making it the second-longest river in the world. Amazon River cruises ...