Some of the world's largest soybean traders are preparing to break their agreement to curb deforestation of the Amazon ...

Brazil’s Triunfo do Xingu Environmental Protection Area encompasses an area of Amazon Rainforest more than half the size of ...

Many locals are cheering on the Brazilian government’s plans to rebuild a decrepit highway. Environmentalists are less keen ...

The Amazon’s worst fire season in decades is turning the rainforest into a massive carbon emitter.

Satellite images appear to show a new highway cutting through the rainforest in the Brazilian state set to host the 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference. The images, taken in by Copernicus ...

PORTO VELHO, Brazil - Brazilian environmental agents seized the equivalent of more than 5,000 truckloads of timber in an operation targeting one of the most heavily logged regions of the Amazon ...

World leaders and delegates are meeting in the northern Brazilian city of Belém for COP30, this year's major UN climate summit. Brazil's Amazon rainforest has shrunk by an area as big as Spain over ...

Brazil’s official data show deforestation in the Amazon fell 11% in the 12 months to July 2025, with independent monitoring by Imazon confirming a similar trend—evidence that policies under President ...

2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that’s a critical counterweight to climate change. A warming climate fed ...

ALTAMIRA, Brazil – If much of the Amazon forest is to wither away, this is the town where that end was foretold. During its campaign to develop the region, Brazil’s former military dictatorship chose ...

As the world’s attention turns toward COP30 in Belém next month, the story of Brazil’s Amazon is shifting—though not quite in a straightforward way. According to the government’s satellite-based ...