A justice on Brazil’s Supreme Court has ordered the federal government to seize private properties when owners are found ...

By Fernanda Wenzel Since 2019, researchers have been using lasers and making incursions into the depths of the Brazilian Amazon to identify giant trees that tower far above the rainforest canopy.

Brazil has now seven World Natural Heritage sites: the Iguaçu National Park, in Rio Grande do Sul ... in Bahia and Espírito Santo; the Central Amazon and Pantanal Protected Areas; the Chapada ...

Brazil's Security and Justice Minister Flávio Dino said Friday that the federal government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva intends to up the strength of the security forces in the crime ...

Though Lula has sought to be recognized as a champion of the world's tropical forests and Brazil's Indigenous peoples, he has ...

Threatened by armed conflict, volcanic activity and rampant deforestation, Africa's oldest national park is turning ... 2025 Ireland donates $16 million to Brazil's Amazon Fund Ireland announced ...

The Buenos Aires mayor’s office said in a statement that the last elephant living in the Argentine city’s “Ecopark” arrived at her destination in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest “in perfect ...

Brazilian environmental campaigner and tribal leader Raoni Metuktire is pitting himself against the government to stop plans for an oil mega-project at the mouth of the Amazon river. Ahead of ...