Studies show that the Amazon was the most hit biome in 2024, with 15.6 million hectares burned—the largest area harmed in the ...

BRASÍLIA (AP) — Brazil President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Friday granted official recognition of nearly 800 square miles of Indigenous lands, following through on a campaign promise in a ...

Between 2014 and 2019, Brazil cut INCRA's budget for formalizing land tenure by 89%, effectively paralyzing the process. In addition, reliable data on land use within these areas is sparse.

Historic forest fires in Brazil last year scorched through an area larger than the size of Italy, recording a burned area ...

MapBiomas’s report also revealed that 2024 was Brazil’s second-worst year for fires since 2007, with nearly a third of the area burned last year suffering from mega-fires of more than 100,000 ...

Brazil President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Friday granted official recognition of nearly 800 square miles of Indigenous lands, following through on a campaign promise in a move that also ...