LAGO DO SOARES, Brazil (AP) — Indigenous leader Filipe Gabriel Mura stands before Soares Lake in Brazil’s Amazon, looking out at the amber waters that are surrounded by a jagged shoreline that has ...

As a state-controlled company explores for oil in the fragile Equatorial Margin the government struggles to balance its ecological promises with fossil fuel expansion. In Oiapoque, the stakes could no ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest fell by 11% from August 2024 to July this year, the government said Thursday, even as wildfires tracked by Brazil’s space agency surged ...

BRASILIA — In a visit to see the damage caused by drought and fire in the Amazon, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva pledged to pave a road that environmentalists and some in his own ...

MANAUS, Brazil — Months before hosting the U.N.’s first climate talks held in the Amazon, Brazil is fast-tracking a series of controversial decisions that undercut President Luiz Inácio Lula da ...

The continued failure to halt the BR-319 highway cutting through the Brazilian Amazon is an example of the systemic problem identified by Hannah Arendt in her study of the minister of transportation ...

To figure out how to save the wetland forests of the Amazon, an ecologist from Brazil led a massive series of expeditions to sample trees across the vast rain-forest. Climate extremes like floods and ...

AUTAZES, Brazil—In the heart of the Amazon rainforest, workers are preparing to dig a vertical shaft as wide as a subway tunnel half a mile down into the ground. It isn’t gold or oil hidden here in a ...

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, ...