Environment

Community of Catalão suffers from drought in Amazonas - Photo: Gato Júnior/Rede Amazônica

Amazon Drought Becomes Time Bomb for Pandemic Diseases

Home to the greatest biodiversity on the planet, the Amazon is also a ticking ...

Fisherman Dil Maiko Marinho stands by a felled tree in an area claimed by Cargill in Xingu Island, Brazil. Photo taken August 12, 2023. Thomson Reuters Foundation /André Cabette Fábio

Amazon Residents Accuse US Cargill of Threatening Their Rights and Way of Life

For centuries, riverside communities, including the “quilombola” descendants of enslaved Africans who escaped from ...

Lake Mauá is the second lake to dry up completely in the East Zone of Manaus because of the severe outflow

Hit by Drought, the Amazon Is Desperately in Need of a Plan to Save Its Biome

The drought plaguing the Amazon is a worrying portrait of the climate challenges facing ...

Beach in Rio de Janeiro. Image by Tomaz Silva/ABr

40-year Study Shows Alarming Extreme Temperatures in Brazil

Released in February 2022, the latest report prepared by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ...

American biologist Philip Martin Fearnside

The Future of the World Is at Stake in Belém, Brazil

Amazon and climate scientists agree: The largest rainforest area in the world is on ...

Indigenous people show a deforested area inside the Amazon rainforest REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino

Brazil’s Anti-green Ultra-conservative Legislature Is a Threat to the Amazon

Brazil’s stewardship of the world’s largest tropical forest has long ignited acrimony. If frontier ...

An invasive lionfish at Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary in the Gulf of Mexico. G. P. Schmahl/NOAA, CC BY

Arrival of Voracious Lionfish to Brazilian Waters Is a Threat of an Ecological Disaster

Brazil’s coastal waters teem with a rich array of species that paint a living ...

An indigenous man participates in a modeling exercise run by Conexsus in Mato Grosso, Brazil - Conexsus/Handout

Rich in Forests, Brazil Is Trying to Build a Strong Bioeconomy

Alongside the Brazilian Amazon’s vast soy and cattle ranching economy – a major driver ...