Brazil has the potential to generate 50 gigawatts ... announced that the era of building big hydroelectric dams in the Amazon basin, long criticized by environmentalists and indigenous groups, ...

At each moment of each day, the Amazon breathes, dances, and sings with an endless variety of plants and animals, many of ...

Brazil’s Belém is set to play host to around 50,000 people during the COP30, the UN’s annual climate summit, in November.

A scientific report released Monday by the organization MapBiomas showed that 65% of mining activities carried out in the Brazilian Amazon basin were ... illegal mining in Brazil had grown 495% ...

The Negro river's low level reflects has been caused by a severe drought that has devastated the Amazon rainforest and other ...

The Amazon basin, once likened to an Inland Sea by Alfred ... Consider the high concentrations of Brazil nut trees found in certain corners of Amazonia. Many experts believe that these were ...

In the 1960s Brazil’s military rulers decided to open up the Amazon Basin—it was, they argued, the nation’s destiny. Land speculators poured in, feeding a classic real estate bubble.

In Brazil, home to about 60 per cent of the Amazon rainforest, fossil fuel drilling and mining are prohibited in Indigenous ...

Join this exceptional journey exploring Brazil’s most celebrated ecological ... Travel up the Rio Negro, the least inhabited river in the Amazon river basin. Throughout the cruise, you will ...