World leaders and delegates are meeting in the northern Brazilian city of Belém for COP30, this year's major UN climate summit. Brazil's Amazon rainforest has shrunk by an area as big as Spain over ...

BELEM, BRAZIL – Four New York Army National Guard combat medics assigned to the 466th Medical Company, Area Support (MCAS), completed a Brazilian jungle familiarization and academics course with U.S.

LONDON, Nov 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A remote jungle school in Brazil was named on Wednesday as the world's best new building, its towering timber canopy serving as classroom and dorm to poor ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A government plan to pave a highway in the Amazon rainforest is prompting concerns from environmentalists who say the development ...

An Amazon summit, featuring leaders from Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Guyana, Venezuela, Suriname, and Ecuador, will meet for the first time in 14 years. The summit will address how the nations ...

The leaders of Brazil and France have announced a plan to invest $1.1 billion in the Amazon rainforest, including French Guiana, over four years. The investment will involve state-run Brazilian banks ...

In Brazil’s Amazon, people are trapped in a vicious cycle in which deforestation begets poverty, and poverty begets deforestation. Already, more than a fifth of the country’s rainforest has vanished.

The Amazon rainforest is the world’s largest tropical rainforest and falls across nine countries in South America, including Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela and Colombia. But Brazil holds a massive 60% of it ...