A University of Cambridge-led study warns that while Brazil’s anti-deforestation measures have slowed tree loss, they have largely failed to address forest degradation — a subtler but potentially more ...

Antonio has spent the past seven years running toward fires that most others run from. A firefighter in the Brazilian Amazon ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Agents of the National Security Force burn illegal mining equipment during an operation by Brazilian authorities against the ...

A study using detailed 3D imagery found that the carbon released by roads, selective logging, fires and natural disturbances in the southern Brazilian Amazon are not fully reflected in the country’s ...

Archaeological surveys along Brazil's BR-156 highway in Amapá have uncovered Indigenous artifacts, including pottery and a 1,000-year-old stone monument, revealing a complex pre-colonial network of ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, April 27 (Xinhua) -- Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon fell 17 percent in the first quarter from a year earlier, according to data released by Amazon Institute of People and the ...

In an unusual development, members of an Amazon tribe who avoid contact with outsiders have been seen entering a village Indigenous advocates find that alarming and a sign of stress as a logging ...

Smoke rises from a fire near a logging area in the Transamazonica highway region, in the municipality of Humaita, Amazonas state, Brazil, Sept. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros, File) AGUA CLARA, ...