By the late 1990s, fewer than 5,000 red-tailed amazons remained. The parrot, native to Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, depends on guanandi trees to survive.

Discovery of illegal palm crops comes as Grupo BBF grapples with financial problems sparked by warnings over its human rights record ...

The South American nation is drawing scrutiny for opening a large swath of ocean to oil companies as it prepares to hold the ...

Brazil auctioned off several land and offshore potential oil sites near the Amazon River on Tuesday. It aims to expand production in untapped regions despite protests from environmental and Indigenous ...

Video. Indigenous groups and environmental activists rallied in Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday as Brazil auctioned off oil blocks ...

“The Amazon’s hydrological cycle is becoming more extreme,” co-author Roel Brienen of the University of Leeds said in a ...

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Exxon Mobil and Chevron on Tuesday took their first steps toward eventually exploring oil in Brazil's Foz do Amazonas basin, ...

Brazil sold extraction rights to 19 oil and gas blocks near the mouth of the Amazon river Tuesday, at an auction slammed by ...

Frequent forest fires and agricultural expansion are degrading soil health in the southern Brazilian Amazon. This results in ...

Indigenous people and environmental activists protested outside a luxury hotel in Rio de Janeiro where the auctions to sell oil exploration rights took place.

Brazil sold exploration rights to 19 oil and gas blocks near the mouth of the Amazon river Tuesday, at the start of an ...