A large-scale federal operation to remove cattle raised illegally in the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve has triggered ...

turned into the Amazon River. This view of the Rio Negro, the Amazon's largest tributary, was taken by McIntyre from near the city of Manaus in Brazil. Photograph by Loren McIntyre, National ...

Listen to the people who live there, the slain journalist Dom Phillips advised.

For the first time, 1 in 4 people in the country are Protestants, but the prediction of outnumbering Catholics by 2032 is ...

Brazil’s environmental agency, IBAMA, approved a key step that could soon allow Petrobras, the nation’s state oil company, to begin offshore oil drilling near the mouth of the Amazon River. In a May ...

CAXIUANA NATIONAL FOREST, Brazil (AP) — A short walk beneath the dense Amazon canopy, the forest abruptly opens up. Fallen ...

Since 1994, the Madeira Basin has endured more extreme floods and droughts than any other part of the Amazon. In 2024, the river reached its lowest level ever recorded. Brazilian studies reveal ...

Flores has never seen the Amazon so low, and the men’s net came up empty before ... and chlorinated water to communities near the river. Brazilian authorities have been distributing potable ...

Flores has never seen the Amazon so low, and the men’s net came up empty before ... and chlorinated water to communities near the river. Brazilian authorities have been distributing potable ...

Oseney da Costa de Oliveira, a poor fisherman who lived by the Itaquai River, was arrested on June ... his hometown in Brazil’s Amazon, where the killings occurred. A Colombian businessman ...

An outgrowth of the wartime U.S. interest in the Amazon’s rubber and the Rio Doce’s iron and mica, SESP is run jointly by the Brazilian Ministry of Health & Education and the U.S. State ...