Half a century of oil drilling has left the Amazon rainforest scarred -and a new wave of fossil fuel extraction is coming ...

Brazil is home to the world’s greatest diversity of amphibians: Of the more than 8,000 species known worldwide, some 1,200 ...

By Ricardo Martins in Utrecht Brazilian President Lula da Silva concluded a busy diplomatic tour across Asia last week, ...

Brazil's state-run oil firm Petrobras and the country's development bank BNDES have partnered up to create a program to ...

Drought hit coffee farmers in Brazil hard last year, drying up trees and driving global prices to record highs. But Rodrigo ...

While cultural differences persist, similarities such as histories, climate, topography, and vegetation allow design ...

According to the latest report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the climate crisis inflicted lasting damage, ...

Controversial 8-mile road project in Belém destroying rainforest, violating Indigenous rights, warn church activists ...

Hope in the face of climate extremes. That is the overarching message about the State of the Climate in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2024.

So, as you savor chocolate, remember the fragile ecosystems behind it. The price of cocoa in early 2025 was near its all-time high, due in part to dry conditions in Africa. Without urgent action to ...

Wells overpumping groundwater could be forcing rivers to seep underground, a new study shows. Regions with intensive ...

NOAA has also supported a few international mapping efforts in cities such as Nairobi, Kenya, and Salvador, Brazil. Local ...