By Adriano Machado, Lais Morais and Ricardo Brito ITAITUBA, Brazil, May 29 (Reuters) - Billions of dollars worth of gold is ...

On a hot afternoon deep in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, Indigenous chief Megaron soaps himself and enjoys a quick swim in the ...

Brazil’s government announced Wednesday that it will invest $75 million in the BR-319 highway cutting through the Amazon ...

Brazil will invest $75 million to pave a highway that cuts through the center of the Amazon rainforest. Environmentalists ...

A Brazilian court has ruled that officials must restore and preserve Fordlandia. The city was established by Henry Ford nearly a century ago in the Amazon rainforest.

Indigenous chief Bepdjo Mekragnotire is once again preparing to lead a group of warriors to chase wildcat gold miners away ...

Brazil cut deforestation in the Amazon to its lowest level since 2019 in 2025, with tougher environmental enforcement helping ...

Gold prices have surged in recent years, sparking a mining rush in the Amazon that accelerates deforestation and mercury contamination.

SAO PAULO (AP) — The administration of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva frequently touts how it has sharply slowed deforestation in the Amazon, and indeed it has. When the next official ...

World leaders and delegates are meeting in the northern Brazilian city of Belém for COP30, this year's major UN climate summit. Brazil's Amazon rainforest has shrunk by an area as big as Spain over ...

The Amazon rainforest has been plundered for decades for rubber, timber and gold. Now, seeking a new treasure, illegal prospectors are setting their sights on the critical minerals coveted by much of ...

MANAUS, Brazil — Months before hosting the U.N.’s first climate talks held in the Amazon, Brazil is fast-tracking a series of controversial decisions that undercut President Luiz Inácio Lula da ...