President Lula is pledging to reduce deforestation to zero by 2030 and is calling for a reduction of greenhouse gases by 67% ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Amazon rainforest. Neil Palmer / CIAT The Brazilian Amazon is on pace to see forest clearing hit a record low this year, ...

BELEM, Brazil (Reuters) -On the banks of the Guama River where the city of Belem presses up against the vast green Amazon, Brazil is pioneering an economic model designed to help locals profit from a ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — 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 ...

Indigenous protesters at UN climate talks in Brazil have zeroed in on a major grievance: A planned railway that would stretch almost the distance from London to Berlin and cut through the Amazon ...

The Amazon rainforest gets all the attention, but the neighboring cerrado stores massive amounts of carbon in its peaty soils ...

Sao Paulo — Pugapia and her daughters Aiga and Babawru lived for years as the only surviving members of the Akuntsu, an Indigenous people decimated by a government-backed push to develop parts of the ...

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 ...

Aerial view of sunset over Amazon River and rainforest in Brazil - Gummybone/Getty Images We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Because of the Amazon's scale and remoteness, you ...