Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva met with actor and environmental activist Leonardo DiCaprio to discuss various ...

Brazil's Ibama environmental regulator authorized Petrobras to drill three more wells in the Foz do Amazonas Basin in the ...

Brazil forest concessions can now trade carbon credits. How stacking forest carbon credits on timber revenue changes the ...

Amazon fish farms grew 450-fold since 1985. Satellite maps now show what land the ponds replaced and where the carbon cost ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - A person walks on the BR-319 highway through smoke from a forest fire that reaches Careiro Castanho in Brazil's Amazonas ...

Norway’s Shearwater GeoServices has launched a multi-client 3D seismic survey in the Foz do Amazonas basin offshore Brazil in ...

Robson Mura, of the Mura Indigenous community, watches the sunrise at the Moyray village in Autazes, Amazonas state, Brazil, Friday, Feb. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros) (ASSOCIATED PRESS) LAGO DO ...

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 ...

Drought affects grain exports and essential supplies in Manaus Sixty-two municipalities in Amazonas state under emergency, over half a million affected Hydropower plants sapped, daylight saving time ...

The new authorization comes after Petrobras’ recent oil discovery in the Amazon and will determine if it’s commercially ...

In Brazil’s Amazon, people are trapped in a vicious cycle in which deforestation begets poverty, and poverty begets deforestation. Already, more than a fifth of the country’s rainforest has vanished.

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 ...