This year’s U.N. climate conference, on the edge of the rainforest, is fueling criticism of the host nation and the entire ...

That harm can look like respiratory diseases such as asthma caused by toxic air pollution after fires, or illnesses that ...

By Lucas Berti Since 2023, Brazil has been pushing a new idea to finance the conservation of global tropical forests: Instead ...

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BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest slowed by nearly half compared to the year before, according to government satellite data released Wednesday. It’s the largest ...

The data also shows that across Brazil, both in the Amazon basin and beyond it, 54% fewer acres of landscape have been burned ...

Amazon as a whole records more than 42,000 forest fires from January 1 to August 19 — the worst number in nearly two decades.

As Mongabay reported, Brazil's federal court overturned a recent suspension of the 2006 moratorium late last month. The ...

By Anna Gielas In 2013, a small group of Brazilian forestry engineers ecologists, and other scientists formed a special ...

The Sept. 17 event on a floating stage on the Guamá River in Belém, Brazil aims to draw attention to efforts to preserve the ...

The stage is inspired by the Victoria Amazonica, a symbolic plant native to the region The post Mariah Carey to perform in ...

But for Mariah Carey fans, that almost unbelievable set up is about to become a reality. No, we’re not joking – it’s just ...