In 2023, hydro-electricity accounted for nearly half of Brazil's installed energy capacity, and more than 60% of its total ...

Brazil's Ministry of Agriculture estimated this week 1 million hectares per year will suffer deforestation until ... a study published by Map Biomas Amazonia showed that the region lost 52% ...

Brazil is home to the world’s greatest diversity of amphibians: Of the more than 8,000 species known worldwide, some 1,200 ...

On the evening of Feb. 12, a teenager from an isolated Indigenous group voluntarily made contact with people in a fishing village in the western Brazilian Amazon, according to Brazil’s ...

The document, based on Prodes satellite imagery, found that deforestation in areas which should have been protected by the Government increased 79% under Bolsonaro, compared to data from 2016 to 2018.

The paving of the BR-319 highway would open the Amazon to further deforestation, affecting Brazil’s rain cycle and endangering Indigenous communities. Image courtesy of the National Department ...

Widespread deforestation has taken place in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. Education allows the population to become more skilled and qualified, which in turn allows more people to gain formal ...