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 ...

This video shows a sloth hanging among thick branches and large green leaves in the Amazon Rainforest, Brazil, where dense vegetation creates a shaded and humid forest environment. The animal is using ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (dpa) – The Amazon jungle – the green lung of the earth – is in dire straits. Ten years after the Rio Summit the forest is dying as quickly as ever, despite all the good intentions ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A government plan to pave a highway in the Amazon rainforest is prompting concerns from environmentalists who say the development ...

BRASILIA, Dec 20 (Reuters) - The lower house of Brazil's Congress has approved a bill to relax environmental licensing to pave a highway cutting through the heart of the Amazon that scientists say ...

LONDON, Nov 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A remote jungle school in Brazil was named on Wednesday as the world's best new building, its towering timber canopy serving as classroom and dorm to poor ...

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 ...

The Amazon rainforest is the world’s largest tropical rainforest and falls across nine countries in South America, including Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela and Colombia. But Brazil holds a massive 60% of it ...

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 reduction since 2016, when ...