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

To figure out how to save the wetland forests of the Amazon, an ecologist from Brazil led a massive series of expeditions to ...

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva opened the U.N. General Assembly with a call on the world to do more to combat ...

Infrastructure investments, agricultural production systems, land speculation and the exploitation of mineral resources have ...

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By Carla Ruas Indigenous leaders from South America issued a cry for help at New York Climate Week on Sept. 25.

Severe droughts across Brazil's Amazon rainforest are severely impacting residents by limiting mobility and disrupting essential supplies. Boats are stranded on sandbanks, affecting local economies ...

Vast, diverse parts of Brazil are burning at the same time, forcing officials to rethink how to protect crucial ecosystems ...

Left: A drone view shows floating houses and boats which are stranded due to the drought affecting the Rio Negro, the largest ...

The Amazon rainforest has lost an area about the size of Germany and France combined to deforestation in four decades, ...

The world's biggest rainforest, the Amazon, has lost an area about the size of Germany and France combined to deforestation ...

As it prepares to host the 30th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ...