Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aerial view of triggered forest fire and deforestation for planting soya beans in the Amazon Rainforest, Vilhena - Rondonia state ...

By Manuela Andreoni SAO PAULO, March 26 (Reuters) - The Brazilian government auctioned its first-ever public land concession ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - A person walks on the BR-319 highway through smoke from a forest fire that reaches Careiro Castanho in Brazil's Amazonas ...

The idea of a railway line stretching across the width of South America — from Peru on the Pacific coast to Brazil on the ...

The Amazon rainforest could face a renewed surge of deforestation as efforts grow to overturn a long-standing ban that has protected it. The ban - which prohibits the sale of soya grown on land ...

The BR-364 federal highway triggered one of the largest deforestation drives in the history of the Brazilian Amazon. Built in the early 1960s through the rainforest, it links Cuiabá, capital of Mato ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest fell by 11% from August 2024 to July this year, the government said Thursday, even as wildfires tracked by Brazil’s space agency surged ...

When President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil returned to power, he had an ambitious goal: restoring his country’s image as a champion of climate action. He vowed to slash Brazil’s emissions of ...

The process of decentralization involves a structured transfer of political power from central governments to subnational jurisdictions. This becomes particularly important in the Amazon, rich in ...

SAO PAULO — As Brazil seeks to boost its environmental credentials by hosting the United Nations’ climate summit, a proposal to build a railway through the Amazon has threatened to tarnish that image ...

(Corrects first paragraph to say Brazil is a ⁠priority ⁠investment market, not the highest ⁠priority investment market; company statement in paragraph 7) SAO PAULO, March 3 (Reuters) - Amazon launched ...

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