The Brazilian Parliament has approved legislation that conservationists denounce as potentially setting back protection of ...

Brazilian pilot Otávio Augusto Munhoz da Silva, who survived in the Amazon jungle for two weeks after a plane crash, has reportedly passed away at 38 following a second aerial accident ...

In 2021, Brazil recorded its highest annual rate of deforestation in 15 years, with some 5,100 square miles of rainforest lost. Government officials say that is changing under da Silva.

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest fell 30% in February from a year earlier, government data showed on Friday, as President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's government worked toward a pledge ...

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon fell 34% in the first half of 2023, preliminary government data showed on Thursday, hitting its lowest level in four years as President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva ...

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Brazil's president says he will stop deforestation of the Amazon by 2030. In the first six months in office, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has been making good on that pledge.

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who has staked his international reputation on improving Brazil’s environmental standing, had been pushing for the region to unite behind a common ...

Roughly 6,288 square km (2,428 square miles) of Amazon were destroyed, an area larger than the U.S. state of Delaware, data from Brazil’s space research agency Inpe showed.

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva welcomed France's candidacy to the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO), French President Emmanuel Macron's office said in a statement on ...

Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has made progress towards halting the illegal destruction of Amazon rainforest, but political opposition and the incoming El Niño will bring ...