The technical staff at Brazil's environmental agency Ibama recommended that the body deny authorization for Petrobras to ...

Despite presiding over a major cut-down of Amazon deforestation, Brazil's left-wing president has raised environmentalists' ...

Brazil’s Federal Prosecutor’s Office is suing the giant mining company Vale, the Brazilian government and the Amazon state of ...

A state of emergency has been declared in the Brazilian Amazon after massive sinkholes opened up, threatening thousands of ...

The mounting pressure on Brazil’s federal environmental agency (IBAMA) to approve the disastrous project to extract oil from ...

In the heart of South America lies the Amazon rainforest, one of the world’s most vital and biodiverse ecosystems. Covering ...

Brazilian authorities say a young man from an isolated Indigenous tribe who approached a riverine community in Brazil’s ...

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

While urinating as a means to communicate or increase social bonding is not uncommon among animals, it is unusual for aquatic ...

Floating in the Rio Negro river in the Brazilian Amazon, Luiz Felipe, who has Down Syndrome, beams as he hugs a pink dolphin ...

Hidrovias do Brasil SA, an operator of barges that transports soybeans and corn via the Amazon and its tributaries, extended ...

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