A young man from an isolated Indigenous tribe approached a riverine community in Brazil’s Amazon, the country’s Indigenous ...

In a rare encounter, a young man from an isolated Indigenous tribe approached a riverine community in Brazil’s Amazon, according to the country’s Indigenous affairs agency and local witnesses.

By Shanna Hanbury Commodity-trading giant Cargill recently signaled that it will weaken its no-deforestation commitments in ...

On the set of I’m Still Here (2024), the acclaimed Brazilian film by Walter Salles Jr., supporting actress Angela Ribeiro was ...

Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is defending oil exploration near the mouth of the Amazon River as a way to ...

Despite industry claims, there are few controls to prevent diamond sales from financing violence and abuse around the world.

Brazil's rich football culture and tough conditions have produced some of the most skilful and talented players in the world, such as Neymar and Ronaldinho. The country has a history of producing ...

In Brazil, home to around 60% of the Amazon, organized crime like logging and drug trafficking thrived under the far-right presidency of Jair Bolsonaro, with severe environmental consequences.

Rare trees that were supposed to stay planted in the Amazon for a carbon credit program have ended up in the U.S. and international markets as lumber, according to Mongabay. Worse still, the ...

Some 30.8 million hectares (119,000 square miles) of vegetation were burned in Brazil in 2024, a 79 percent increase from 2023, monitoring platform MapBiomas reported. Fires in the Amazon ...

A carbon markets investor backed by Swiss-trading house Mercuria said today it had joined with two non-profits to raise an initial $1.5 billion to help protect the Amazon, by working with ...