When you think of Brazil, you picture colourful carnival goers, Christ the Redeemer towering over tourists, and sunbathers on ...

Visitors can get up close with tropical birds including the green-winged macaws and scarlet ibis, and meet Parker the jaguar.

Along the Amazonian coastline in Brazil’s northeastern state of Maranhão, plans are underway for a port project that will ...

The Amazon is the world’s largest rainforest – spanning 6.9 million square kilometres (2.72 million square miles) across nine countries and covering around 40% of the South American continent.

A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP30 climate summit in the Brazilian city of Belém. It aims to ease traffic to ...

If you want to understand the jungle, you can't be content just to sail back and forth near the shore. You've got to get into ...

A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP30 climate summit in the Brazilian city of Belém. It aims to ease ...

The Amazon Rainforest, a colossal ecosystem brimming with biodiversity, is home to some of the most fascinating creatures on the planet. Among its slithery inhabitants, one particularly enormous snake ...

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Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Beneath Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, one of the planet’s largest potassium reserves is fueling tensions ...

In 2023 there were 98,639 wildfires in the Amazon alone. The Amazon rainforest, too, accounts for a significant portion (51.94%) of wildfires in the Brazilian biomes. In recent years, this area ...