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

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

By Fernanda Wenzel In May 2025, a delegation of angry politicians and agribusinessmen from the Brazilian state of Pará ...

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Antonio has spent the past seven years running toward fires that most others run from. A firefighter in the Brazilian Amazon ...

Brazil's Amazon rainforest saw its highest annual rate of deforestation in over 15 years, the latest data shows, after a 22% climb from the previous year. The country's space research agency ...

MANAUS, Brazil — Months before hosting the U.N.’s first climate talks held in the Amazon, Brazil is fast-tracking a series of controversial decisions that undercut President Luiz Inácio Lula da ...

Deforestation is having a more devastating effect on the Amazon rainforest than earlier data suggested. While cutting down large swaths of trees destroys vital habitats, it also harms the region's ...

Bolsonaro and his Liberal Party did better than expected Several anti-environmentalists won seats in Congress Future of the Amazon seen depending on run-off results RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 5 (Thomson ...

This was no ordinary tree. Tidy diagonal scars ran up and down its trunk in tightly organized chevrons. The lines were as parallel as the black, red, and white stripes of the São Paolo FC jersey that ...