By Fernanda Wenzel When President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva took office in January 2023, illegal gold mining in the Brazilian ...

CATALAO, Brazil — Santa Claus braved the sticky heat of the Amazon rainforest this weekend, taking two boats to bring gifts ...

Gold is difficult to trace, especially once metal from different sources has been melted together. Investigators say this is ...

Criminal gangs are operating in over a third of municipalities in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest driving a boom in violence ...

Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino shot back Sunday after President-elect Trump suggested the Panama Canal return to U.S.

Dozens of environmental nonprofits issued a manifesto Thursday condemning new laws in Brazilian states that threaten to ...

Across various regions of the Brazilian Amazon, traditional Indigenous, riverside, Quilombola, and rubber-tapper communities ...

A farmers' lobby in Brazil is seeking to end a two-decade-long agreement that forbids grain traders from buying soybeans from ...

Brazil's Amazon has been experiencing a surge in violence as criminal gangs expand their presence in over a third of municipalities in the country's rainforest region, according to a report by the ...

Mongabay examined four REDD+ projects in Pará state and found that all were developed in partnership with sawmill owners with ...

Santa Claus navigated his way along the Negro River in the Brazilian Amazon on Saturday to distribute gifts to children in ...