The environmental risks of dredging include ecosystem disruption, increased erosion, water contamination, and harm to aquatic ...

(This Sept. 30 story has been corrected to fix a name in the reporting credits)) By Bruno Kelly MANACAPURU, Brazil (Reuters) ...

Drought is devastating Brazil ... in the Amazon have been left stranded. Authorities have been distributing potable water and water purification systems. Passenger boats and supply ships are ...

The construction of BR-319 is a contentious issue in Brazil. A government plan to pave a highway in the Amazon rainforest is prompting concerns from environmentalists who say the development will ...

The Negro river's low level reflects has been caused by a severe drought that has devastated the Amazon rainforest and other parts of Brazil ... s out of work because boats that once stopped ...

Read the Portuguese version here. In the badlands of the southwestern Amazon, Antonia Barbosa is fighting to protect ancient archaeological finds from Brazil’s unstoppable $523 billion ...

MANACAPURU, Brazil, Sept 20 (Reuters) - A team of Brazilian Greenpeace environmental activists on Friday placed a protect banner on a sandbank that has emerged in the middle of one of the major ...

his hometown in Brazil’s Amazon, where the killings occurred. A Colombian businessman, Rubens Villar Coelho, stands accused of masterminding the slayings and is also in custody. As the owner of ...

Below-average rainfall - even through the rainy season - has plagued the Amazon and much of South America since last year, also feeding the worst wildfires in more than a decade in Brazil and Bolivia.

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon remains near a six-year low, with 561 square kilometers cleared in September, a 30% decline from the previous year. Fires in the Amazon have surged ...

Added Azevedo: "From an environmental standpoint, paving this road will be so detrimental for the Amazon rainforest, which we all know is crucial -- both to Brazil and the world in general." ...