Months before hosting COP30, Brazil auctioned 47 oil and gas blocks in the Amazon. Activitsts have vowed to challenge the ...

The Amazon Rainforest is home to some of the most exotic and beautiful animal life on the planet. Recently, scientists have ...

A new report reveals the Amazon rainforest has suffered a devastating setback after conservation efforts lowered the deforestation rate in Brazil by nearly 50% in 2023. In mid-October, the Global ...

Satellites detected 41,463 fire hot spots in Brazil's Amazon in September, the largest number for that month since 2010, data from the National Institute for Space Research (Inpe) showed.

Last year Brazil suffered the deepest drought since records began. Wildfires were particularly ferocious and difficult to fight. They caused 60% of the deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon.

Drought Leaves Amazon Basin Rivers at All-time Low, BBC News, Sept. 18,2024. Additionally, and of consequence for the world at large, the Amazon is not alone, Europe’s rivers ran almost ...

The California Senate has introduced a landmark resolution to have the state examine its crude imports from the Amazon, ...

The Amazon rainforest contains almost two years of global carbon emissions, but is under threat as a carbon sink, according to a new study Fabiano Maisonnave Tuesday 13 August 2024 00:30 BST ...

The killing of Indigenous land defenders is especially happening in Brazil. Since 2009, there have been more than 300 deaths related to land conflicts in the Brazilian Amazon. The Amazon rainforest is ...

“The Amazon’s hydrological cycle is becoming more extreme,” co-author Roel Brienen of the University of Leeds said in a ...

Brazil auctioned off 34 of 172 potential oil blocks near the Amazon River, aiming to boost oil production in untapped regions ahead of the UN climate talks in the Amazon. Major companies like Chevron, ...

SANTAREM, Brazil, Oct 1 (Reuters) - Fires in Brazil's Amazon rainforest region surged to the highest number for September in almost a decade and a half, preliminary government data showed on ...