By Lisandra Paraguassu and Leonardo Benassatto BELEM, Brazil (Reuters) -At 93 years old, Indigenous leader Raoni Metuktire is ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s government on Monday began removing thousands of non-Indigenous people from two native territories in a move that will affect thousands who live in the heart of the Amazon ...

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest has fallen for the fourth straight year, the government said Thursday, a boost ...

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SAO FELIX DO XINGU, Brazil — Over the last four years, Wenatoa Parakana has watched the rainforest her ancestors fiercely defended being cut down at a breakneck pace. In this remote slice of the ...

Brazil's top court on Tuesday ordered an investigation into how tracts of stolen land in the Amazon rainforest inhabited by ...

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest slowed by nearly half compared to the year before, according to government satellite data released Wednesday. It’s the largest ...

Mato Grosso is Brazil's top soybean producer and accounts for two-thirds of the country's corn ethanol output, which has ...

Casa da Mata feels less like a traditional home and more like a suspended sanctuary rising gracefully above the dense canopy of Brazil’s rainforest. Tucked into a sunny clearing inside Reserva da ...

Ana Luiza Peterlini, a prosecutor in Mato Grosso, Brazil, said that the state is investigating if corn ethanol plants burn wood ...