Some of that deforestation will likely happen in the Cerrado, the savanna biome next to the Amazon that serves as Brazil’s second ... and their villages have become oases of forest, streams ...

Today, eight river ports are under expansion in Brazil’s northern half, with five railways planned for the Amazon and northeast Brazil, three waterways and dozens of highway pavements ...

With the first U.N. climate talks in the Amazon approaching, thousands of Indigenous people marched Tuesday in Brazil’s capital ... isolation for river communities, crop losses and the death ...

Indigenous leader Filipe Gabriel Mura stands before Soares Lake in Brazil’s Amazon ... near the mouth of the Madeira River, ...

Some 15 million tons of soy and corn were loaded onto barges at Miritituba last year bound for larger shipping ports down river. That corresponds to over 10% of Brazil's total export volumes for ...

The Amazon River passes through Brazil, Columbia, Peru, and Venezuela, but Brazil holds the largest portion. Also known as the Solimões River, famously meets with the Rio Negro River to form the ...

BRASILIA, April 19 (Reuters) - Brazil should not explore oil reserves in the Amazon region, because of the dangerous impact on local communities, Indigenous leader Raoni Metuktire, of the Kayapo ...