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 ...

On a vast island in northern Brazil, an unusual debate about cattle and conservation is taking place. Federal authorities ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon fell last year to its lowest level since 2019, according to a report from the MapBiomas ...

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 ...