Brazilian courts have found that the Belo Monte hydropower plant in the Amazon failed to meet environmental and social ...

In rural communities living near Brazil’s Juruá River, a tributary of the Amazon River that flows northward through the country, families of fishers take turns in guarding the entrances of oxbow lakes ...

Brazil is the world’s most biodiverse country, and the title is not closely contested in absolute numbers: between 10% and 15 ...

Brazil has declared the acai berry a national fruit, a move to stamp its ownership on the popular "superfood" as concerns ...

In the first days of 2026, the Brazilian Association of Vegetable Oil Industries (ABIOVE), which represents the largest soybean traders in Brazil, announced its withdrawal from the Amazon soy ...

Alter do Chão in Brazil offers a serene Amazon river escape with stunning natural scenery.

A multidisciplinary team of Brazilian researchers argues in an article published in the BMJ that health systems in the ...

Hundreds of Indigenous people have been protesting at a Cargill facility in Santarem, Brazil, against a decree signed in August by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Environmental and Indigenous groups accuse Cargill, the American grain-trading company, and other agribusiness giants of ...

The Indigenous practice of agroforestry is enjoying a renaissance as the agricultural sector aims to decarbonise without ...

Orlando Bloom is joining Ethan Hawke in “The Last of the Tribe,” a jungle thriller based on a novel by award-winning ...

For the journalist Dom Phillips, the Javari Valley represented a test for the Amazon and its future. ‘More threatened than it ...