When President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva took office in early 2023, environmentalists breathed a sigh of relief. After four years of environmental destruction under his far-right predecessor Jair ...

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

Environmental activists from around the globe have eagerly awaited Brazil's turn hosting the United Nations climate summit, ...

City and state officials are also encouraging residents to travel and rent out their homes. That has unleashed a gold rush of ...

Brazilian environmental campaigner and tribal leader Raoni Metuktire is pitting himself against the government to stop plans ...

A United Nations effort is channeling more finance to communities to help them conserve, restore and sustainably manage ...

The Brazilian state hosting a United Nations climate summit this year has denied any connection between a new road cutting through a protected area of Brazilian rainforest and the COP30 summit that ...

Meanwhile in Brazil, the government is clearing a swathe of the Amazon rainforest for a road to get 50,000 delegates to the next UN climate change conference – COP30 – to held, weirdly ...

SAO PAULO – Brazil plans to launch an ambitious US$125 billion (S$167 billion) fund to protect tropical forests when it hosts the COP30 climate summit in November. The investment vehicle is part ...

FILE PHOTO: A heron flies over the bustling Ver-o-Peso market, while anticipation grows for this year's COP30 Summit, which will be held in Belem, Para state, Brazil, February 6, 2025. REUTERS/Adriano ...