The city of Buriticupu, in the northeastern tip of the Brazilian Amazon, is being slowly swallowed by the earth. In recent ...

Brazilian environmental agents seized the equivalent of more than 5,000 truckloads of timber in an operation targeting one of ...

By comparison, about half of the Amazon biome is protected—and the Amazon is specifically named in the Brazilian Constitution as a national heritage zone, but not the Cerrado. An estimated four ...

Brazil — Brazil´s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is pressing the country’s environmental regulator to approve exploratory drilling near the mouth of the Amazon River, defending the push ...

Whitley Award-winning biologist Fernanda Abra’s Reconecta Project is building canopy bridges across highways in Brazil to ...

In recent weeks, huge sinkholes, several meters (feet) deep, have led the municipal government to declare a state of emergency.Some 1,200 people of total 55,000 population are at risk of having their ...

FILE - Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva speaks during the inauguration ceremony for the new president of the state-run oil company Petrobras, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 19 ...