Francisco Mateus da Silva, 67, spent an hour walking across sandbanks and dry riverbeds where he lives in the Amazon to fetch ...
Illegal mining for critical minerals needed for the global renewable energy transition is increasingly driving deforestation ...
The environmental risks of dredging include ecosystem disruption, increased erosion, water contamination, and harm to aquatic ...
Brazil's worst drought on record has helped fuel wildfires in the Amazon rainforest. The Pantanal, a region that encompasses ...
Brazil's government on Thursday joined Asian palm oil and coffee producers in welcoming a European Union decision to delay implementation of new anti-deforestation rules which had faced strong global ...
In many regions of the Amazon “the drought is already more intense today than it was at the worst point last year,” said Romulo Batista, a biologist and spokesperson for Greenpeace Brazil.
Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is set to open the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday with a call for ...
International Amazon River Tributaries Dry Up Amid Severe Drought In Brazil Parts of the multiple rivers are now visible amid a severe drought in the state of Amazonas, in Brazil. The Amazon ...
A year ago, Carlos Nobre, one of Brazil's top climate scientists, was a rare voice of optimism about the future of the planet ...