Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva met with actor and environmental activist Leonardo DiCaprio to discuss various ...

Brazil forest concessions can now trade carbon credits. How stacking forest carbon credits on timber revenue changes the ...

Amazon fish farms grew 450-fold since 1985. Satellite maps now show what land the ponds replaced and where the carbon cost ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest fell by 11% from August 2024 to July this year, the government said Thursday, even as wildfires tracked by Brazil’s space agency surged ...

Norway’s Shearwater GeoServices has launched a multi-client 3D seismic survey in the Foz do Amazonas basin offshore Brazil in ...

AUTAZES, Brazil—In the heart of the Amazon rainforest, workers are preparing to dig a vertical shaft as wide as a subway tunnel half a mile down into the ground. It isn’t gold or oil hidden here in a ...

Robson Mura, of the Mura Indigenous community, watches the sunrise at the Moyray village in Autazes, Amazonas state, Brazil, Friday, Feb. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros) (ASSOCIATED PRESS) LAGO DO ...

In Brazil’s Amazon, people are trapped in a vicious cycle in which deforestation begets poverty, and poverty begets deforestation. Already, more than a fifth of the country’s rainforest has vanished.

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Brazil has committed to dredge major Amazon rivers in response to record drought that has lowered water levels and made ship passage, a key ...

To figure out how to save the wetland forests of the Amazon, an ecologist from Brazil led a massive series of expeditions to sample trees across the vast rain-forest. Climate extremes like floods and ...

As world leaders conclude the United Nations’ annual climate talks in Belém, Brazil— a summit meant to accelerate global action on phasing out fossil fuels—the Brazilian government is facing mounting ...

Brazil's remote Amazonas state is in the throes of a political dispute over the opening of the natural gas market, a move that proponents say would unlock substantial reserves. State lawmakers ...