MANAUS, Brazil — In the heart of the Brazilian rainforest , residents and shop owners are feeling the World Cup anticipation.

Brazilian officials on Thursday announced a sharp drop in deforestation rates, pushing back on one of the arguments that the ...

Brazil is home to some of the planet’s largest areas of tropical forest, but they are under intense pressure. The Atlantic Forest, on the country’s eastern coast, once covered 350 million acres, but ...

Brazil cut deforestation in the Amazon to its lowest level since 2019 in 2025, with tougher environmental enforcement helping reduce forest loss even as five trees continued to be felled every ...

EXCLUSIVE: Area23a has acquired We Are Guardians, an urgent documentary on Indigenous defenders of the Amazon Rainforest in Brazil produced by Fisher Stevens’ Highly Flammable, and Leonardo DiCaprio’s ...

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World leaders and delegates are meeting in the northern Brazilian city of Belém for COP30, this year's major UN climate summit. Brazil's Amazon rainforest has shrunk by an area as big as Spain over ...

RIO DE JANEIRO -- Backed by military aircraft, Brazilian troops on Saturday were deploying in the Amazon to fight fires that have swept the region and prompted anti-government protests as well as an ...

Anavilhanas Jungle Lodge’s boat on the Rio Negro. I grew up swimming in rivers and creeks in rural Pennsylvania, and now seek them out wherever I travel. I’ve jumped into rivers of all kinds, from the ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

In the heart of the Brazilian rainforest, residents and shop owners are feeling the World Cup anticipation. As residents ...