Brazil, which is hosting the 30th U.N. Climate Change Conference this month, wants to show the world it is a leader in safeguarding the planet. Its record tells a more complicated story.

A narrow skiff slides among massive rocky outcroppings on the Tocantins River, where the catfish and peacock bass throng in ...

Britain's Prince William will announce on Tuesday a new initiative aimed at supporting Indigenous communities and ...

Brazil's government says deforestation in the Amazon fell 11% in the year through July 2025 to its lowest level in nearly a ...

The gathering gets underway months after two-thirds of the 195 nations that signed the Paris climate agreement missed a ...

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest has fallen for the fourth straight year, the government said Thursday, a boost ...

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest fell 11.08% in the 12 months through July compared with the same period a year ...

Political shifts in Brazil have revived international optimism, yet across South America, forest loss is accelerating. As COP30 approaches, experts warn that pledges alone will not save the rainforest ...

The cause of the pollution is largely fires set by humans to clear forest for cattle and pasturelands, according to the peer-reviewed findings ...

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Scientists in Brazil are conducting an artificial drought experiment in the Amazon to understand its resilience to climate ...

The Amazon rainforest is the world’s largest tropical rainforest and falls across nine countries in South America, including Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela and Colombia. But Brazil holds a massive 60% of it ...