More than 420,000 children in the Amazon basin have been affected by “dangerous levels” of water scarcity and drought in three countries, according to the United Nations. The record-breaking drought, ...

Yearly deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon fell by almost a third since August 2023, the Brazilian government said on Wednesday, plummeting to a nine-year low after historic droughts and wildfires ...

Forest loss in Brazil's Amazon decreased by 30.6%, reaching a nine-year low, while the Cerrado saw a 25.7% reduction. Despite this, President Lula's government faces criticism for projects potentially ...

The Brazilian Amazon experienced its smallest amount of yearly deforestation in nearly a decade, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's government reported Wednesday, in line with its promise to combat ...

According to official monitoring, Amazon rainforest loss in Brazil dropped by one-third compared to the previous year, ...

More than 420,000 children in the Amazon basin are being badly affected by a drought parching much of South America that is impacting water supplies and river transport, UNICEF said ...

BRASILIA (Reuters) -Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon fell 30.6% in the 12 months through July compared to the same period a ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Brazilian artist Mundano on Wednesday presented a massive street mural in Sao Paulo that uses ash from ...

The roughly 2.3 million square miles of the Amazon Rainforest are spread across eight countries in South America. Close to two-thirds of the forest lies within Brazil, while the rest reaches into ...

Archaeologists have discovered a lost colonial city in the Amazon rainforest. The city, which dates back to the 18th century, was a Portuguese settlement that appeared on some maps with its exact ...

In Brazil’s Amazon, people are trapped in a vicious cycle in which deforestation begets poverty, and poverty begets deforestation. Already, more than a fifth of the country’s rainforest has ...

The Amazon rainforest is seen from a plane flying from the city of Manicore to Manaus in the state of Amazonas, Brazil, on June 10, 2022. Archaeologists have discovered a lost colonial city in the ...