The Lula administration has announced plans to increase fines for violators. New report uncovers disturbing factor driving ...

Maloca is the name given to the houses where indigenous communities of the Amazon rainforest live, settled in regions of the ...

In Brazil´s Amazonas state, almost 6,000 riverine dwellers authorized to fish have reported a significant drop in production ...

Atmospheric aerosol particles are essential for the formation of clouds and precipitation, thereby influencing the Earth's energy budget, water cycle, and climate. However, the origin of aerosol ...

Brazil’s environment minister, a renowned former activist, helped push climate change to the top of President Lula’s agenda.

Nov. 1 marked the five-year anniversary of the killing of Indigenous forest guardian Paulo Paulino Guajajara and the ...

José Rafael Lozada had systematically monitored forest plots for almost 25 years in the Caparo Forest Reserve, the last ...

Spanning approximately 2.3 million square miles (6 million square kilometers) across eight South American countries, the Amazon Rainforest is the world’s largest tropical forest. This vast ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Forest loss in Brazil’s Amazon dropped by 30.6% compared to the ...

Forest loss in the Legal Amazon from August 2023 to July 2024 reached 6,288km². The result is the lowest percentage of ...

The Amazon region is a global hotspot of biodiversity and plays a key role in the climate system because of its ability to store large amounts of carbon and its influence on the global water cycle.

But this is no work of fiction; it’s the real-life quest of scientists, conservationists, and local heroes under the Rolex ...