BRASILIA (Reuters) – The lower house of Brazil’s Congress has approved a bill to relax environmental licensing to pave a highway cutting through the heart of the Amazon that scientists say will…
By William Schomberg LONDON (Reuters) – One year after British reporter Dom Phillips was murdered in Brazil while working on a book about saving the Amazon rain forest, a group of journalists…
By Jake Spring SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazil’s presidential election on Sunday may determine the fate of the Amazon jungle, the world’s largest rainforest, after deforestation soared in the past four years…
A South American energy company was forced to halt operations of a pipeline traveling through the Amazon rainforest after a rupture caused a large leak of crude oil, multiple sources reported. OCP…