In the Brazilian state of Para, deep in the Amazon, mile upon mile of deforested land flanks the dusty road. Pastureland ...

A narrow skiff slides among massive rocky outcroppings on the Tocantins River, where the catfish and peacock bass throng in ...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Brazil identified fresh bird flu cases in wild animals, which it said should not have any commercial impact, and is investigating a new potential case on a commercial farm, ...

MONTENEGRO, Brazil (Reuters) -Officials and chicken farmers in Brazil have stepped up sanitary controls close to where the country's first case of avian influenza was found on a commercial farm, while ...

PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil, May 15 (Reuters) - The despair in Nilton Muradaz Junior's eyes is unmistakable as he looks at the vast lake that was once his farm and home, but now shows little sign of the ...

FILE PHOTO: Chickens and a turkey are seen inside a coop at a private poultry farming at a ranch in Rio de Janeiro SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Japan suspended purchases of poultry from a Brazilian state ...

This undated electron microscopic image provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows two Influenza A (H5N1) virions, a type of bird flu virus. (Cynthia Goldsmith, Jackie Katz/CDC ...

Brazil has more trees than any country except Russia—but when our huge forests make the news, it’s usually because of “deforestation.” My nation and its Amazon region are so incomprehensibly big that ...

An endangered Lear's macaw (Anodorhynchus leari) flies over a reserve near the Canudos Biological Station, close to the Canudos Wind Energy Complex in Canudos, Bahia ...

A wind farm in northeastern Brazil sounds like a welcome climate-friendly energy solution, but it is causing controversy over another kind of environmental worry: the impact on the endangered Lear’s ...

A Brazilian farm worker was left with a mangled leg after a jaguar blew up his phone. The 40-year-old cowhand was attacked by the big cat last week while he investigated the source of a disturbance ...