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 ...

Historic forest fires in Brazil last year scorched through an area larger than the size of Italy, recording a burned area some 60% higher than average of the last four decades, said a report ...

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.

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

In Maranhão, as in the rest of Brazil, the annual fire season is off to a dramatic start this year, fueling worries for what may lie ahead. The state has registered 3,484 hotspots in the first ...

Brazil’s enormous northeast bulge has more people—25 million—than Argentina, more land—597,353 sq. mi.—than all of Central America. If the Northeast was a separate nation, it would rank ...

Brazil’s government has granted a preliminary environmental permit for the paving of highway BR-319, which runs between the cities of Manaus and Porto Velho and cuts through one of the Amazon ...

Venezuela’s president ordered the creation of a new state called “Guayana Esequiba” on Tuesday, following a controversial Sunday referendum which saw Venezuelan voters approving the ...

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...