The Ferrograo railway project would transport commodities including corn and soybeans nearly 621 miles from a city on the ...

MercadoLibre Inc. has long dominated the online-shopping market in Latin America, but this holiday season, it finds itself in ...

Brazilian farmers want to end a ban on planting soya on cleared land, which critics say would spur deforestation.

Brazil’s decision to approve oil drilling exploration near the Amazon River has raised concerns over the future of the ...

First came the floods, then the fire. As he officially opened COP30, Brazil’s president, Lula Inacio da Silva said that by ...

Lugging 50-kilo bags through the rainforest’s rough terrain is a vital piece of the nut trade, but could soon change.

This year’s U.N. climate negotiations were seen by activists as a letdown. But a Times reporter found some encouraging signs ...

A prominent nonprofit group in Brazil says that criminal gangs expanded their presence in the Brazilian Amazon last year and ...

They found that properties with secure land rights deforested less and were more likely to comply with Brazil's Forest Code, ...

Environmental advocates warn oil leaks or spills could cause irreparable damage to the unique and understudied ecosystem.They ...

One small Indigenous territory is currently the site of roughly 70% of deforestation in Indigenous territories across the ...

Social media users concerned about climate change are claiming that amid COP30 in Belém, Brazil's Ministry of the Environment ...