ITUPIRANGA, Brazil (Reuters) -A narrow skiff slides among massive rocky outcroppings on the Tocantins River, where the catfish and peacock bass throng in the eddies during the waxing moon. For most of ...

While publicly defending a green agenda in his travels around the world, Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva seems to have decided on a different course at home. His center-left government ...

See more of our coverage in your search results. Add The New York Post on Google Assets worth over $64 million were seized and 94 people arrested as part of a multinational law enforcement operation ...

Petrobras PBR, the Brazilian state-controlled integrated oil and gas company, has announced a bold plan to resume substantial investments in the Urucu natural gas hub, located in the Solimões Basin, ...

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 ...

As world leaders conclude the United Nations’ annual climate talks in Belém, Brazil— a summit meant to accelerate global action on phasing out fossil fuels—the Brazilian government is facing mounting ...

Wildfires raging in the Amazon rainforest have hit a record number this year, with 72,843 fires detected so far ...

The connectivity of the Amazon’s rivers, lowlands, wetlands and Andean areas is vital for the functioning of these different ecosystems, but it is threatened by hydroelectric dams, mining and ...

South America’s Amazon River Basin is currently undergoing a severe drought, with water levels in the river lower than they have been in the past 120 years. A boat travels through a section of the ...

When President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil returned to power, he had an ambitious goal: restoring his country’s image as a champion of climate action. He vowed to slash Brazil’s emissions of ...