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Advisors to leftist Brazilian presidential hopeful Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva are proposing subsidized "green" farm loans to spur planting of soybeans and corn on open pasture and reduce deforestation of the Amazon rainforest.

When Covid-19 reached Brazil's Amazon, and an indigenous tribe sealed off its borders, director Alex Pritz found an innovative way to finish his documentary -- he handed the cameras over to the Uru-eu-wau-wau themselves. "The Territory," to be released by National Geographic on Friday, follows the plight of some 200…

Decades of intensive agriculture threaten the Cerrado region, which acts as an important carbon dioxide ‘sink’ and helps fend off global warming

Brazil vowed last year to halt deforestation by 2030, yet the number of fires burning in the country's Amazon rainforest hit a 15-year high in June. Burning season began last month and the rate of forest clearing remains high.

The court's decision reopened a lawsuit that invalidates a protected area in Brazil's Amazon.

After declaring a decision final, an important state court in Brazil has backpedaled and reopened a lawsuit that invalidated a large protected area in the country's Amazon rainforest

Pope Francis will install the first cardinal of Brazil's Amazon region this month in a sign of his concern for the rainforest and its indigenous inhabitants, the man whom he picked for the role said.

Brazilians go to the polls in October, and they´ll have a choice between reelecting Jair Bolsonaro, or bringing back former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

Unique micro-lot wild cacao flavours from a Brazilian maker. By Annalisa Barbieri

Freelance reporter Dom Phillips who had written for the Guardian and the Washington Post, went missing along with indigenous expert Bruno Pereira in June with remains later found

Marketed to meat lovers, plant-based burgers like Impossible and Beyond claim to taste like the real thing and to have far lighter environmental footprints.