Fernando Trujillo, a marine biologist leading the effort, kneels beside the animal’s head, shielding its eye with a small ...

Beyond its beautiful beaches, this tropical country has far more historic gems and natural wonders than most people realize.

Brazil's Amazon lost area equal to Spain over 40 years, raising alarms as the rainforest nears an irreversible tipping point.

That harm can look like respiratory diseases such as asthma caused by toxic air pollution after fires, or illnesses that spread from animals to humans such as malaria, said Paula Prist, a senior ...

The first study of its kind, led by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), gathered data from 1,733 municipalities representing more than 74% of the Amazon to find that forests on ...

Findings add to mounting evidence that recognizing and enforcing Indigenous Peoples’ land rights has widespread benefits – for the climate, nature and, now, health ...

In 2013, a small group of Brazilian forestry engineers ecologists, and other scientists formed a special operations unit. Known as the Grupo de Especialização de Fiscalização (GEF), the unit operates ...

The team, with the Missouri State University Center for Archaeological Research, will travel to Brazil this fall.

For decades the world’s largest rainforest has been getting drier. A new study published in Nature Communications ...

The host of this year’s climate talks is trying to soothe concerns about hotel shortages and other logistical pitfalls. Brazil is urging companies to come to this year’s global climate talks at the ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s labor court on Friday ordered Volkswagen to pay 165 million reais (about $30 million) for collective moral damages after workers were subjected to slave-like conditions at a ...