In Brazil’s Amazon, people are trapped in a vicious cycle in which deforestation begets poverty, and poverty begets deforestation. Already, more than a fifth of the country’s rainforest has vanished.

BRASILANDIA, Brazil (AP) — The dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development will deliver a major blow to efforts including humanitarian assistance in Colombia, conservation efforts in ...

BOGOTA, Colombia -- Presidents from South America's Amazon nations gathered Friday alongside Indigenous leaders to agree on a joint plan to safeguard the world's largest rainforest -- a vast region ...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - The world's largest meatpacker, Brazil's JBS SA, has for years knowingly bought cattle that were raised on illegally deforested land, turning a blind eye to regulations meant to ...

Brazil's President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is heading to the COP27 summit this week, to reassure the world that Amazon rainforest is in... Brazil's President-elect Lula will address protection ...

Bolivia's President Luis Arce, right, talks to Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, left, and Colombia's President Gustavo Petro during a meeting of leaders of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — In the Brazilian ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Global Citizen surpassed its fundraising goals for Amazon rainforest protection, African energy access and community education at the antipoverty nonprofit’s annual music festival in ...