In the heart of South America lies the Amazon rainforest, one of the world’s most vital and biodiverse ecosystems. Covering ...

At threat is one of the largest waterways in the region, the Paraná water system that millions of people in Brazil ... deforestation further north in the Amazon jungle. Reporter: BBC South ...

Tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest are being paved over in Brazil to make way for a new four-lane highway ahead of an upcoming climate summit. Belém, which is set to host ...

12, a teenager from an isolated Indigenous group voluntarily made contact with people in a fishing village in the western Brazilian Amazon, according to Brazil’s Indigenous agency, Funai.

Beneath Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, one of the planet’s largest potassium reserves is fueling tensions between industrial ambitions and Indigenous rights. (AP Video by Fernando Crispim.

(AP Photo/Bruna Prado, File) BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is pressing the country's environmental regulator to approve exploratory drilling near the mouth of ...

In northwest Brazil, officials are aiming to pave a 560-mile road connecting the Amazon-adjacent states of Amazonas and Roraima to the rest of the country. The highway, BR-319, is currently mostly ...