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Brazil’s Minister for Indigenous Peoples says the country is seeking to prevent the Amazon from hitting a tipping point.

Brazil's Minister for Indigenous Peoples says the country is seeking to prevent the Amazon from hitting a tipping point.

Studies by Brazilian state-run oil company Petrobras show that a single oil block of Amapas equatorial margin could total more than 5.6 billion barrels of oil, the countrys mines and energy...

NEW YORK—Even after 75,000 people, including a contingent from the Communist Party USA, marched through Manhattan to demand global action to deal with global warming, global leaders speaking at the United Nations afterward downplayed the threat—except for Brazilian President Luiz Inácio “Lula...

By Bruno Kelly and Steven Grattan MANACAPURU, Brazil (Reuters) - Some rivers winding through Brazil's vast Amazon rainforest have piled up with dead f...

Spoiler: the Amazon doesnt take the prize for the globes lengthiest river. Find out what is the worlds longest stream.

  My first Port Townsend Film Festival was in 2016, and my first marathon review of the Film Festival for the Port Townsend Leader was in 2017. This year has brought some especially welcome …

The scientific community has long been puzzling over patches of dark and fertile soil called the ‘dark earth’ in the middle of the Amazon River basin in South America.

The rich soil holds thousands of tons of carbon, sequestered over centuries by indigenous practices, a new study suggests. The Amazon river basin is known for its immense and lush tropical forests, so one might assume that the Amazon’s land is equally rich. In fact, the soils underlying the fores

Vietnam attaches great importance to relations with Brazil, a leading and important partner in Latin America