SAO PAULO (Reuters) - The governor of the northern Brazilian state of Para said on Tuesday he will propose a bill to revoke a state tax on grains production. Governor Helder Barbalho said in a post on ...

Pará state is hotspot for forest loss, fuelling CO2 emissions New economic plan aims for sustainable use of natural resources Businesses seek help to build processing facilities in Amazon BELEM, ...

Brazil is a custodian to two thirds of the Amazon, the world’s largest rainforest. The biome is home to millions of Brazilians, including hundreds of Indigenous peoples and traditional communities, ...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Brazilian federal prosecutors in Para state have filed a lawsuit to demand the removal of the hull and ...

Maria Gorete, who just began ranching three years ago, is doing something new with her 76 head of cattle in the Brazilian ...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - The Brazilian state of Pará, which will host the COP30 global climate talks next year in the Amazon, is defending local regulations that encourage illegal gold mining, according ...

The greed for critical minerals is invading land reform settlements in Brazil, threatening food production and environmental protection. An analysis has identified 3,391 mining processes overlapping ...

After 23 days of protests, Indigenous groups and teachers in the Brazilian state of Pará have successfully pressured Governor ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- New Fortress Energy Inc. (Nasdaq: NFE) (“NFE” or the “Company”) today announced that its 6 MTPA (300 TBtu) Barcarena LNG terminal located in Pará, Brazil is now operational ...

Tainted Beef, Hides, from the Amazon May Have Been Exported to the EU Illegal cattle ranching has devastated territories of small land holders and Indigenous peoples in the Amazon region that will ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, March 27 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A corporate conservation project in Brazil's Amazon rainforest has sold carbon credits from publicly owned land without state authorization, a ...

Gold mining activities may be suspended in the southwest of Pará state, in the Brazilian Amazon, if authorities fail to implement measures to increase control and traceability over the country’s gold ...