On the banks of the Guama River where the city of Belem presses up against the vast green Amazon, Brazil is pioneering an ...

Brazilian farmers want to end a ban on planting soya on cleared land, which critics say would spur deforestation.

The government of Brazil, Brazilian communities, and a broad coalition of partners—including WWF—launched the ARPA ...

They found that properties with secure land rights deforested less and were more likely to comply with Brazil's Forest Code, ...

Brazilian authorities have raged against comments by Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz in which he appeared to look down on ...

Nations sealed a modest agreement at the UN climate summit in the Brazilian Amazon on Saturday as many countries swallowed ...

As Brazil's government seeks to boost its environmental credentials by hosting the United Nations' climate summit, a proposal ...

A prominent nonprofit group in Brazil says that criminal gangs expanded their presence in the Brazilian Amazon last year and ...

Resembling upside-down tree roots, the tangled mangrove branches that extend into the water and provide a habitat for fish ...

Brazil’s leader, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, says he wants the future of the Amazon rainforest to be built around a major fund that will pay countries to keep their forests standing ...

Brazil’s tropical forests are under pressure. Startup re.green won for the Earthshot Prize for its efforts to restore them.

Idra Novey is a freelance writer and author of three novels, most recently "Take What You Need," one of The New York Times Book Review's 100 Notable Books of 2023, and a finalist for the Joyce Carol ...