Extreme drought across Brazil’s Amazon worsens local fears for the future Historically low water levels have affected hundreds of thousands of people and wildlife across Brazil’s Amazon and ...

With the Amazon rainforest no longer slowing the effects of global warming, but instead contributing to it, we now have an even narrower window in which to act. Gordon Hempton, aka the Sound ...

A YEAR ago, Carlos Nobre, one of Brazil’s top climate scientists, was a rare voice of optimism about the future of the planet. The 73-year-old, one of the top experts on the Amazon rainforest, was ...

MANAUS, Brazil - The river port in the Amazon rainforest's largest city of Manaus on Friday hit its lowest level since 1902, as a drought drains waterways and snarls transport of grain exports and ...

They include vast areas of the Amazon rainforest and the Pantanal, the world’s largest wetlands, as well as the Cerrado grasslands and the Atlantic forests along the country’s eastern coast.

The Amazon, often called the "lungs of the planet," is the world's largest tropical forest, playing a crucial role in the global climate system due to its vast carbon storage.

The construction of BR-319 is a contentious issue in Brazil. A government plan to pave a highway in the Amazon rainforest is prompting concerns from environmentalists who say the development will ...

The river port in the Amazon rainforest's largest city of Manaus on Friday hit its lowest level since 1902, as a drought drains waterways and snarls transport of grain exports and essential ...

“This is why we are fighting: so that our children and our grandchildren can grow up in the Amazon rainforest,” she says. Now Nenquimo's work to protect the Amazon in Ecuador is intensifying ...

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 Tuesday, after reaching similar highs in ...