Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will meet with environmental agency Ibama either this week or the next to ...

By Fernanda Wenzel In 2021,an army of dredges equipped to churn up the riverbed in search of gold invaded the largest ...

With Donald Trump settling back into the White House, advocates for the Amazon worry about what his second term will mean for the rainforest.

Travel up the Rio Negro, the least inhabited river in the Amazon river basin ... of the gods", is the capital of the state of Amazonas in Brazil. It was founded in 1669 and declared a town ...

The Amazon's largest city is Manaus, Brazil, a "breakneck jungle metropolis" with "far-flung foods, frenetic markets and river-driven way of life," Lonely Planet said. Attend an opera performance at ...

Several Brazilian ministries have joined efforts in a desperate attempt to impede the gigantic Amazon ... Solimões River between Tabatinga and Benjamin Constant, in the far west of Amazonas.

This model used data from the “Mercury Observatory” on the distribution and accumulation of the metal in the four basins of the Tapajós River (Pará, Mato Grosso, and Amazonas); the Xingu ...

in the Amazon that was on public land belonging to the federal government and the state of Amazonas. Last week’s ruling was the largest civil case brought for climate crimes in Brazil to date ...

FILE - Residents look out at the Madeira River, a tributary of the Amazon River amid a drought in Humaita, Amazonas state, Brazil, Sept. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros, File) ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Alexis Damancio Silva can’t forget the hardship in his town of Puerto Narino in far southern Colombia last year when extreme drought nearly dried up the Amazon River.