Brazilian researchers are using laser technology to unearth a lost Portuguese colony and challenge long-held beliefs about ...

To permanently protect 150 million acres of the Brazilian Amazon, Brazil established the Amazon Region Protected Areas (ARPA) ...

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The effect is that about 10,000 acres of rainforest are being destroyed daily, which is ultimately impacting weather patterns ...

BRASILIA, Brazil — With the first U.N. climate talks in the Amazon approaching, thousands of Indigenous people marched Tuesday ... The world’s largest tropical forest is a major carbon sink ...

An ongoing Brazilian government operation launched in February has removed between 1,000 and 2,000 illegal head of cattle ...

Indigenous protests and poor roads have disrupted shipping of Brazil's bumper soybean crop in recent days via the river port ...

It generates approximately BRL 275,000 in annual revenue, benefiting more than 500 people and helping preserve Brazil's Amazon rainforest biodiversity. "This initiative puts the Rio Novo community ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Two Belgian teenagers were charged Tuesday with wildlife piracy after they were found with thousands of ...

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — With the first U.N. climate talks in the Amazon approaching, thousands of Indigenous people marched ...