Slick from a mysterious oil spill blighted Brazil’s beaches over the weekend, as clean-up efforts get underway. Reports of the oil spill emerged late last month. Brazil’s environmental agency Ibama...
Firefighters battling raging wildfires in Bolivia were evacuated to hospitals in Santa Cruz on Thursday (September 19) after they collapsed from exhaustion. Blazes have burned unabated across vast swaths of...
A Human Rights Watch report on Tuesday (September 17) found that more than 300 people have been killed over the past decade in conflicts over the use of land and...
Residents in Brazil’s vast Mato Grosso state were battling blazes spreading in dry brush while Brazil’s military arrived at a remote jungle location to fight the fires that continue to...
Brazil’s Environment Minister Ricardo Salles told media on Monday (September 02) that Brasilia has held talks with Norway and Germany over Amazon wildfires after the two European states halted aid...
The continued deforestation of the Amazon as fires sweep through the world’s largest rainforest could have disastrous effects on the continent’s climate, according to a Brazilian scientist based in London....
A few charred trees are all that remain in this patch of the Amazon after it was ravaged by fires, a somber scene which has angered the international community as...
Tree trunk ashes are all that remain in a barren portion of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil’s state of Rondonia. A dead bird lies next to a lifeless tree, a...
The Brazilian government lacks the resources to fight a record number of wildfires burning in the Amazon rainforest, President Jair Bolsonaro said on Thursday (August 22), weeks after telling donors...
The Brazilian inmate who disguised himself as his teenage daughter to escape prison was found dead in his cell. READ: Brazilian gang leader attempts jailbreak dressed as daughter Convicted Rio...
