As a state-controlled company explores for oil in the fragile Equatorial Margin the government struggles to balance its ecological promises with fossil fuel expansion. In Oiapoque, the stakes could no ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Nubank (NU) and Amazon's (AMZN) Brazil unit formed a partnership that will expand payment options for customers shopping on the Amazon.com.br store, the companies said on Wednesday. Nubank's ...