Brazilian officials on Thursday announced a sharp drop in deforestation rates, pushing back on one of the arguments that the Trump administration used last week to justify additional tariffs on the ...

By Aimee Gabay A crackdown by the Brazilian government on land-grabbers who cleared primary Amazon forest for ranching and ...

The events underscore the challenge of balancing conservation, Indigenous interests and pressure from agribusiness, one of ...

Abelardo de la Espriella, set to be Colombia's president, has intensified debate over the future of the Amazon.

Brazil cut deforestation in the Amazon to its lowest level since 2019 in 2025, with tougher environmental enforcement helping reduce forest loss even as five trees continued to be felled every ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - A fishing boat sails at the mouth of the Uaca River, in the Uaca Indigenous Territory region, near the mangrove and ...

BRASILANDIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil auctioned off several land and offshore potential oil sites near the Amazon River on Tuesday as it aims to expand production in untapped regions despite protests from ...

Falling Amazon deforestation alerts in Brazil could mark an important moment for forest wildlife if the trend continues.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — Water levels in the Brazilian Amazon recovered in 2025 following two consecutive years of severe ...

Brazil’s antitrust regulator suspended a key mechanism for rainforest protection, the Amazon Soy Moratorium, on Aug. 18, less than three months before the nation hosts the COP30 climate summit. The ...

To figure out how to save the wetland forests of the Amazon, an ecologist from Brazil led a massive series of expeditions to sample trees across the vast rain-forest. Climate extremes like floods and ...