Indigenous leader Filipe Gabriel Mura stands before Soares Lake in Brazil’s Amazon, looking out at the amber waters that are ...

PORTO VELHO, Brazil, Feb 17 - 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 ...

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 ...

As a physician who has cared for many patients with this deadly disease in Africa, I marveled at how this one tree has saved ...

A city in Brazil has declared a state of emergency after a number of huge sinkholes opened up in recent weeks. Several ...

In a rare encounter, a young man from an isolated Indigenous tribe approached a riverine community in Brazil’s Amazon, according to the country’s Indigenous affairs agency and local witnesses.

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

It’s amazing, it’s amazing! I have no other word to describe it.” That’s how biologist Marcos Roberto de Brito defines the ...

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