A question hangs in the air while the soil of the planet’s largest tropical rainforest grows increasingly dry: What is the ...

Saharan dust carried a distinct bacterial community across the Atlantic to the Amazon rainforest, where airborne endotoxin ...

The re-election of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is expected to lead to continued rainforest protections. His opponent wanted to make it easier to clear land.

A special edition of this series on COP30 describes the threats facing the Amazon rainforest. We see the potential of ...

El Niño is fueling a dangerous cascade of wildfires across the tropics, with the Amazon rainforest now experiencing widespread burning and scientists warning that the worst may still be ahead. NASA ...

Brazil reports record-low deforestation in the Amazon and Cerrado, as satellite data highlight progress in forest protection and conservation efforts.

Human activity, like deforestation, is turning the Amazon rainforest from a carbon sink into a carbon emitter. The Amazon rainforest has long been called the “lungs of our planet,” because of how it ...

Heading into the first round of voting on Sunday, the front-runners are Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro, son of former far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, and President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who is seeking ...

Viewed under a microscope, the air above the Amazon rainforest teems with activity. It is full of pollen, fungal spores, tiny ...

Deforestation in the Cerrado, the wooded savanna next to the Amazon rainforest, fell 24% to 5,516 sq km, also the lowest ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A new agreement announced at the COP30 climate talks in Brazil intends to unify countries and institutions from around the world to monitor and ...

BRASILIA, Nov 9 (Reuters) - Norway announced on Monday a donation of around 350 million reais ($63.58 million) to Brazil's ...