BRASILIA, Brazil — With the first U.N. climate talks in the Amazon approaching, thousands of Indigenous people marched Tuesday in Brazil’s capital, demanding the state guarantee and expand ...

Some of that deforestation will likely happen in the Cerrado, the savanna biome next to the Amazon that serves as Brazil’s second-largest source of carbon storage. The Cerrado is governed by ...

Historically low water levels have affected hundreds of thousands of people and wildlife across Brazil’s Amazon and, with experts predicting the drought could last until early 2024, the problems ...

ALTAMIRA, Brazil, March 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- A transformative initiative in the Brazilian Amazon is protecting nearly 400,000 hectares of rainforest while helping local communities build ...

Munduruku indigenous activists intermittently shut down the road, also known as the BR-230, beginning on March 25 to put pressure on Brazil's Supreme Court to overturn a 2023 law limiting ...

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