Brazil’s President Lula da Silva says oil drilling in northern coastal regions could be a "passport to the country’s future." ...

Environmentalists have heavily criticised the exploratory drilling in the sea off the mouth of the Amazon.

The government has granted the state-run Petrobras a license to drill for oil near the mouth of the Amazon River.

A major geographical wonder in South America, the Amazon River flows some 4,000 miles from Peru to Brazil's Atlantic coast, making it the second-longest river in the world. Amazon River cruises ...

Brazil's oil discovery in an exploratory well in a controversial offshore frontier off ​the Amazon coast last week has handed ...

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 ...

Brazil’s northern beaches recently suffered from arrivals of sargassum blooms, a phenomenon affecting Caribbean nations that most scientists so far have associated with nutrients coming from the ...

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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Brazil is pushing to build a 621-mile railway through the Amazon even as it hosts the U.N. climate summit and ...

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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Brazilian authorities destroyed 277 illegal gold-mining dredges on the Madeira River with Interpol support, ...