Brazil has auctioned off several land and offshore potential oil sites near the Amazon River, aiming to expand production in ...

Frequent forest fires and agricultural expansion are degrading soil health in the southern Brazilian Amazon. This results in ...

Brazil's vast and diverse geography, with the Amazon to the north, mountain ranges along the Atlantic coast and the Andes to ...

From Lucas do Rio Verde, a major agricultural hub in the state of Mato Grosso, the railway would be built from scratch, ...

Likely approval of bill easing environmental licensing requirements enjoys leniency from federal government due to interest ...

As Linda Alvarado, a young Indigenous Yine leader, travels through the forest in the depths of the Peruvian Amazon, she ...

Petrobras, U.S. companies Exxon and Chevron, and Chinas CNPC paid $153 million to seek reserves in a controversial area ...

An Indigenous man protests against the auction of dozens of oil blocks, including blocks near the mouth of the Amazon River, ...

Brazil sold exploration rights to 19 oil and gas blocks near the mouth of the Amazon river Tuesday, at the start of an ...

By the late 1990s, fewer than 5,000 red-tailed amazons remained. The parrot, native to Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, depends on guanandi trees to survive.