Francisco Mateus da Silva, 67, spent an hour walking across sandbanks and dry riverbeds where he lives in the Amazon to fetch ...
The Amazon has had its worst forest fires in two decades. More than 62,000 square kilometres have been burned this year ...
Fires in Brazil's Amazon rainforest region surged to the highest number for September in almost a decade and a half, ...
The Solimoes, one of the two largest tributaries of the Amazon River in Brazil, fell to its lowest level ever on Monday in ...
The environmental risks of dredging include ecosystem disruption, increased erosion, water contamination, and harm to aquatic ...
The proposed reconstruction of Brazil’s BR-319 (Manaus-Porto Velho) highway (Figure 1) needs a new environmental impact ...
When Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva opens the United Nations’ General Assembly on Tuesday, he is expected to ...
To figure out how to save the wetland forests of the Amazon, an ecologist from Brazil led a massive series of expeditions to ...
An underfunded agency is up against the agriculture industry’s unstoppable expansion of cash crops — and humanity’s heritage hangs in the balance.
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.
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva mentioned the fires ravaging the rainforest back home — but not the fact they're adding ...
Fires in Brazil's Amazon Rainforest Region Surge for Third Month By Stefanie Eschenbacher SANTAREM, Brazil (Reuters) - Fires in Brazil's Amazon rainforest region surged to the highest number for ...