By Adriano Machado, Lais Morais and Ricardo Brito ITAITUBA, Brazil, May 29 (Reuters) - Billions of dollars worth of gold is ...

Brazil to invest $75 million in highway through Amazon and unveils environmental protection plan - Brazil’s government has ...

On a hot afternoon deep in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, Indigenous chief Megaron soaps himself and enjoys a quick swim in the ...

A court in the northern Brazilian state of Pará has ruled that both federal and local officials must act to restore and ...

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

Brazil cut deforestation in the Amazon to its lowest level since 2019 in 2025, with tougher environmental enforcement helping ...

Brazil will invest $75 million to pave a highway that cuts through the center of the Amazon rainforest. Environmentalists ...

World leaders and delegates are meeting in the northern Brazilian city of Belém for COP30, this year's major UN climate summit. Brazil's Amazon rainforest has shrunk by an area as big as Spain over ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — The surge in gold prices in recent years has fueled a renewed mining rush in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, accelerating deforestation in protected areas and driving mercury ...

SAO PAULO — The surge in gold prices in recent years has fueled a renewed mining rush in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, accelerating deforestation in protected areas and driving mercury contamination to ...

FILE - An illegal mining camp is visible from a Brazil Environmental Agency helicopter during an operation to try to contain illegal mining in Yanomami Indigenous territory, Roraima state, Brazil, Feb ...