By Shanna Hanbury Brazil’s Senate approved an environmental licensing bill that could expedite major infrastructure projects, including paving a highway that cuts through one of the most intact parts ...

Parts of the Amazon are drifting into uncharted territory. According to a concerning new study published in Nature, the ...

As the global climate warms and the dry season lengthens, signs of a shift towards a hypertropical climate pattern are ...

A new study predicts that by 2100, the Amazon rainforest could experience up to 150 days of hot drought conditions each year, ...

As Belém's COP30 ended in compromise, political forces moved swiftly to accelerate destruction far from the global spotlight.

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 ...

MANAUS, Brazil (AP) — Months before hosting the U.N.’s first climate talks held in the Amazon, Brazil is fast-tracking a series of controversial decisions that undercut President Luiz Inácio Lula da ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. As a controversial bill passes in Brazil, environmentalists prepare for the “last stand” to save the Amazon. Brazil’s Congress approved a sweeping ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — The bishop sat quietly near the front row, hands folded, listening as Indigenous leaders and church workers spoke about the threats to Peru’s northern forests, a part of the Amazon ...

Pope Leo XIV, the Apostolic Administrator of Chiclayo, Bishop Robert Prevost, preaches during a Corpus Christi Mass in a stadium in Chiclayo, Peru, on June 19, 2019. (Credit: Julio Reano/AP.) Listen ...