By Fernanda Wenzel Major soy traders operating in Brazil announced in early January that they would abandon one ofthe world’s most successful zero-deforestation agreements, known as the soy moratorium ...

RIO DE JANEIRO -- Backed by military aircraft, Brazilian troops on Saturday were deploying in the Amazon to fight fires that have swept the region and prompted anti-government protests as well as an ...

Deforestation in ​Brazil's Amazon rainforest ‌fell 35.4% ​from August 2025 to January ‌2026, compared with the same period a year earlier, government data showed ‌on Thursday. * The Amazon ‌logged the ...

Satellite images appear to show a new highway cutting through the rainforest in the Brazilian state set to host the 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference. The images, taken in by Copernicus ...

World leaders and delegates are meeting in the northern Brazilian city of Belém for COP30, this year's major UN climate summit. Brazil's Amazon rainforest has shrunk by an area as big as Spain over ...

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 ...

LAGO DO SOARES, Brazil — 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 been ...

The Brazilian government has built a map to help commodity exporters comply with the European Union’s new regulation on ...

The Amazon rainforest is of crucial importance to the Earth's ecosystem, given its capacity to store substantial amounts of carbon in its vegetation. In 2023, the region experienced unusually high ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LAGO DO SOARES, Brazil (AP) — Indigenous ...