Political shifts in Brazil have revived international optimism, yet across South America, forest loss is accelerating. As ...

These investments are complicit in genocide,” said Jonas Mura, chief of the Gavião Real Indigenous Territory in Brazil.

Brazil’s Federal Police can trace whether gold came from an illegal mine in the Amazon rainforest, and investigators told ...

Brazil's Petrobras said Monday it has permission to drill for oil near the mouth of the Amazon River, casting a shadow over ...

Brazil has authorised Petrobras to explore for oil off the Amazon coast, a move campaigners say undermines global climate ...

Human Rights Watch found a major international company could be sourcing cattle from ranches linked to deforestation.

Brazil is betting its much-hyped climate summit in the Amazon next month can deliver something increasingly rare in a ...

Rachel Dobkin is a Newsweek reporter based in New York. Her focus is reporting on politics. Rachel joined Newsweek in October 2023. She is a graduate of The State University of New York at Oneonta.

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest surged to a 12-year high in 2020, official government data showed on Monday, with destruction soaring since President Jair Bolsonaro took office and ...

Brazil has mobilized more than 4,000 soldiers to patrol its northern coast near the jungle border with French Guiana for the trafficking of drugs, weapons and gold and for other crimes, which are ...

The Amazon rainforest is the world’s largest tropical rainforest and falls across nine countries in South America, including Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela and Colombia. But Brazil holds a massive 60% of it ...

Brazil is betting its much-hyped climate summit in the Amazon next month can deliver something increasingly rare in a ...