The recent sinkholes are an escalation of a problem that residents of Buriticupu, in Maranhao state, have been watching ...

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

While roughly 90% of the timber illegally harvested in Brazil's Amazon rainforest is sold locally, some still reaches the United States and Europe, Schmitt said. Investigators in the raid in Porto ...

BURITICUPU, Brazil - The city of Buriticupu, in the northeastern tip of the Brazilian Amazon, is being slowly swallowed by the earth. In recent weeks, huge sinkholes, several metres deep, have led the ...

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 ...