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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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