Despite a drop in the size of deforested areas, the number of wildfires in the region increased by more than 30 percent.

SAO PAULO — 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 annual ...

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

The surge in gold prices in recent years has fueled a renewed mining rush in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, accelerating ...

Global demand for critical minerals, used to build drones and electric cars, is surging, setting of a new wave of criminality ...

Researchers examined the combined effects of tree loss and global warming in an effort to better understand how and when an ...

Amazon has been gradually speeding up its delivery windows, after getting customers hooked on two-day and next-day shipping.

The clash between the two men and their followers has defined Brazilian politics since. In 2025, for a brief moment, it ...

Gold rush fuels Amazon deforestation and mercury poisoning in Brazil’s protected areas - Gold prices have surged in recent ...

Brazil's Amazon rainforest sees reduced deforestation rates, yet faces significant threats from degradation, climate change, ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — Labor prosecutors in Brazil filed a lawsuit Wednesday against meatpacking giant JBS, accusing the company of buying cattle from farms where workers were held in slavery-like ...