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Brazilian authorities say a fisherman has confessed to killing a British freelance journalist and an Indigenous expert in the remote Amazon.

Last week the Brazilian government established a group of bureaucrats whose mission is to survey the numbers regarding deforestation and burn-offs undertaken by INPE (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais), the National Institute of Spatial Studies.

LONDON - Star Canadian defender Kadeisha Buchanan has signed a three-year deal with English soccer giant Chelsea.

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As the ecological crisis in Brazil continues to get worse, the country's Roman Catholic bishops have become more vocal about its causes, denou...

SAO PAULO (RNS) — The damage from mining projects goes beyond deforestation, the bishops say. The effects include death from disease and higher rates of murder and sexual assault.

Hollywood stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo have joined other celebrities making a final push for voters in Brazil to register before the Wednesday deadline.

Victoria’s Department of Health has been unable to say at what sites control measures have been put in place for Japanese encephalitis-carrying mosquitos in northern...

Far-right Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro has presided over record deforestation of the Amazon. As his reelection campaign begins, the fate of a critical global ecosystem is on the ballot.

Oxitec says it’s genetically modified bugs could help control invasive populations of the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which can spread diseases. Some scientists worry releasing the creatures into the wild may have more risk than benefit.