Brazil’s federal government reverses a decree after Indigenous protesters pressure it to drop plans tied to dredging the ...

For almost two decades, Brazil's largest soy producers guaranteed their products did not come from land cleared in the Amazon rainforest. Now, all bets are off.

Brazil has revoked a presidential decree that placed sections of three Amazonian rivers — the Tapajós, Madeira and Tocantins — under a state-led privatization program. Indigenous groups had protested ...

The Amazon rainforest could face a renewed surge of deforestation as efforts grow to overturn a long-standing ban that has protected it. The ban - which prohibits the sale of soya grown on land ...

Brazil’s antitrust regulator suspended a key mechanism for rainforest protection, the Amazon Soy Moratorium, on Aug. 18, less than three months before the nation hosts the COP30 climate summit. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - A person walks on the BR-319 highway through smoke from a forest fire that reaches Careiro Castanho in Brazil's Amazonas ...

BELEM, Brazil (Reuters) -On the banks of the Guama River where the city of Belem presses up against the vast green Amazon, Brazil is pioneering an economic model designed to help locals profit from a ...

World leaders and delegates are meeting in the northern Brazilian city of Belém for COP30, this year's major UN climate summit. Brazil's Amazon rainforest has shrunk by an area as big as Spain over ...

Brazil’s latest satellite alerts indicate that deforestation in the Amazon has continued to fall into early 2026, extending a downward trend that began after a sharp rise earlier in the decade. Data ...

Brazilian government has U-turned on decree that could have harmed vital rivers and waterways for Indigenous communties ...