Police from Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana and Suriname have arrested nearly 200 people in their first-ever joint cross-border ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Brazil state-run oil giant Petrobras said a drilling fluid leak off the coast of the Amazon region posed no environmental damage ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Criminal gangs are operating in over a third of municipalities in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest driving a boom in violence, according to a report published Wednesday by a prominent ...

Brasilia, BRAZIL (AP) — Brazil’s Federal Prosecutor’s Office announced Friday a deal with Elon Musk’s Starlink to curb the use of its services in illegal mining and other criminal activities in the ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — Some 52 million hectares of natural land have been lost in the Brazilian Amazon region since 1985 – an area larger than Spain. Nationwide, the loss over the past four decades ...

ASUNCIÓN, Paraguay, June 5 (UPI) --Brazil's environmental authority has approved one of the final requirements for state-run oil company Petrobras to proceed with oil exploration at the mouth of the ...

Brazil is the world’s most biodiverse country, and the title is not closely contested in absolute numbers: between 10% and 15 ...

BRASILIA, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Thirteen people have died in gang violence in the past four days in Porto Velho, the capital of Rondonia state in the Brazilian Amazon, where gang members have clashed ...

The Amazon forest nears a 'point of no return' after losing 13 percent of its area in Brazil in the past 40 years - Copyright Government of Papua New Guinea/AFP ...

Brazilian state oil company Petrobras said Tuesday that a "fluid leak" had forced it to halt drilling off the coast of the Amazon region. Despite strong opposition from environmental activists, ...