Brazilian police with support from Interpol have destroyed 277 dredges used in illegal gold mining along the Madeira River in ...

You can only really do the Amazon from the water. The world’s greatest river rises in Peru’s Andean uplands and ends at the ...

Brazil, which is hosting the 30th U.N. Climate Change Conference this month, wants to show the world it is a leader in ...

The Brazilian government, through the environmental regulator IBAMA, has granted Petrobras a license for exploratory oil drilling near the mouth of the Amazon River. Despite environmental and ...

Indigenous communities on the remote border between Peru and Brazil are alarmed over the growing presence of Brazil's Comando ...

Brazil’s government has approved exploratory drilling by state-run oil-giant Petrobras near the mouth of the Amazon River. The decision comes only weeks before the United Nations climate ...

A planned $2.5 billion potash mine in the rainforest is billed as key to Brazil’s expanding agricultural exports and to the ...

In the heart of the Amazon Basin, where the borders and cultures of Peru, Colombia and Brazil converge, a tiny, shape-shifting island has become the unlikely setting for a diplomatic tug of war.

The Brazilian government has given permission to Petrobras to drill oil near the mouth of the Amazon River, thereby raising environmentalists' concerns and downgrading the country’s ...

Brazil's bid to turn the mouth of the Amazon River into a new oil exploration frontier is facing institutional pushback from ...

Brazil's environmental agency Ibama greenlit state-run oil company Petrobras to conduct exploratory research by drilling ...

A 7-month-old baby was among multiple people injured after piranhas attacked swimmers at a resort along the Amazon River in ...