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While Brazil vows to fight climate change, lawmakers approved a law making it harder for Indigenous tribes to block deforestation, overriding a veto by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Both Lula and the Supreme Court have previously called the measures in the bill unconstitutional and against public interests, and Indigenous organizations announced they will challenge the law.

Ecosystems scored a win at the climate talks in Dubai.

Deforestation across the Amazon Rainforest has fallen by 55% this year, marking the lowest amounts since 2019

The government of Suriname has made plans to appropriate a massive stretch of the Amazon Rainforest for projects related to agriculture and livestock. If finalized, the deal could allow unprecedented deforestation and challenge a campaign by Indigenous communities to win rights to ancestral territory. The land deals under consideration would grant the Ministry of Agriculture […]

Have you ever wondered which rivers are the longest in the world? From the Nile to the Parana, here are the 8 longest rivers from source to mouth.

Lula da Silva’s government praised the results of the COP28, while auctioning off 602 blocks and working to increase crude oil and gas production

Program aims to boost farm output, without deforestation in Brazil's Amazon region.

Lessons from key food sectors to harmonize and scale greener production

Five policy briefs released at the COP28 climate summit in Dubai call for urgently protecting the Amazon Rainforest from degenerating into a dry savanna, providing insights about what drives destruction and degradation in the region and solutions for securing the basin’s sustainable future. The reports were published Dec. 9 by the Science Panel for the […]