In Oiapoque, Brazil, hopes that oil will transform the economy hangs in air, after the government granted state-owned company ...

Brazil, which is hosting the 30th U.N. Climate Change Conference this month, wants to show the world it is a leader in ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Brazil’s environmental agency, IBAMA, approved a key step that could soon allow Petrobras, the nation’s state oil company, to begin offshore oil ...

MANACAPURU, Brazil, Sept 30 (Reuters) - (This Sept. 30 story has been corrected to fix a name in the reporting credits) The Solimoes, one of the two largest tributaries of the Amazon River in Brazil, ...

MANACAPURU, Brazil, Sept 15 (Reuters) - Severe droughts across Brazil's Amazon rainforest region are drastically altering residents' lives as mobility is hampered by record-low levels on upper ...

MANAUS, Brazil — Dark clouds rumble over the tiny Amazon River community of Nossa Senhora do Livramento. After two years of devastating drought, you might think that residents in this parched and ...

Brazilian police with support from Interpol have destroyed 277 dredges used in illegal gold mining along the Madeira River in ...

As a punishing drought dries up stretches of the Amazon River, Brazil is resorting to dredging to try to keep food, medicine and people flowing along the watery superhighway. As a punishing drought ...

AFUÁ, Brazil — Brazilian politicians stumping for reelection know the power of public largesse. So it was in 2010 when the incumbent governor of Pará state lavished city halls in this sprawling ...

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 ...

The project calls for more than 2,000 kilometers (more than 1,200 miles) of navigable channels in these two rivers, which cross the Amazon and the Cerrado savanna biomes, and is part of the so-called ...