Brazil to blast Amazon tributary for grains shipping as soy frontier advances

A narrow skiff slides among massive rocky outcroppings on the Tocantins River, where the catfish and peacock bass throng in ...

Brazil’s Amazon deforestation falls 11% even as fires surge to record levels

Brazil’s government says deforestation in the Amazon fell 11% in the year through July 2025 to its lowest level in nearly a ...

Fisher Stevens Highlights Why His and Leonardo DiCaprio's Amazon Rainforest Doc Matters So Much Today (Exclusive)

Fisher Stevens, who produced the 'We Are Guardians' documentary about the Amazon rainforest destruction, says these stories ...
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Heading into COP, Brazil’s Amazon deforestation rate is falling. What about fires?

By Rhett Ayers Butler As the world’s attention turns toward COP30 in Belém next month, the story of Brazil’s Amazon is ...

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon hits 11-year low ahead of COP30

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest fell 11.08% in the 12 months through July compared with the same period a year ...
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‘Yanuni’ Review: A Thrilling, Romantic Documentary About Brazil’s Fight for Indigenous Land

Few environmental documentaries begin with quite the urgency that “Yanuni” does. Even fewer blend political thrills with meditative visual poetry, but Austrian director Richard Ladkani strikes this ...

Brazil's government green-lights oil drilling near mouth of Amazon River ahead of UN climate summit

Brazil’s government has approved exploratory drilling by state-run oil-giant Petrobras near the mouth of the Amazon River ...
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Brazil strikes deal with Musk's Starlink to curb criminal use in the Amazon rainforest

FILE - In this image provided by IBAMA, Brazil's Environmental Agency, a Starlink internet unit produced by Elon Musk's company is seized from an illegal mining pit in a remote part of the Brazilian ...