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President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said people were intentionally starting fires in the Amazon rainforest, the Pantanal wetland and other areas, putting 48 cities on red alert.

Though most of the world has had decades to grapple with the repercussions of the internet, tribes living in the Amazon's Indigenous villages are playing catch-up.

The 2,500-year-old site may be the earliest example of urbanism ever documented in the Amazon rainforest.

International climate talks turned to a power game on Friday as dozens of world leaders took turns bemoaning the pain of an overheating planet.

For a new concert with a social conscience, the Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra is teaming up with local composers to showcase pieces that cover topics that hit close to home.

Fifty cents per can go towards the Nature Conservancy of Canada and the beer is available in stores throughout Saskatchewan.

The government space agency that uses satellites to monitor fires reported more area burned in the month of July than in any July since 2016.

The news came as the UN climate office warned that the world remains off target for meeting its goal of cutting emissions as part of international efforts to curb global warming.

To track the regional and national networks that drive environmental crime across the Amazon, researchers have teamed up with Interpol, InSight Crime and several other partners,

Before Bolsonaro took office in 2019, the Brazilian Amazon hadn't recorded a single year with more than 10,000 square kilometers of deforestation in over a decade.

A frog with fangs, a blind snake and a round-headed dolphin are among more than 1,000 new species recently found on the incredible Melanesian island of New Guinea, environment group WWF said.

BRASILIA, Brazil - Brazil's lower house of Congress on Wednesday approved a bill that weakens the nation's benchmark environmental law protecting the Amazon and other areas, a move that some fear will lead to a spike in deforestation.

The U.S. is looking to its allies, such as Japan and Canada, to announce their own intensified climate efforts.

For years, groups like Ducks Unlimited Canada have pushed the province to develop a wetland policy, as Saskatchewan is the only province without one.

This will mark the third time that President Jair Bolsonaro has dispatched troops to the Amazon, following two "Operation Green Brazil" deployments that ended in April.

A first-of-its-kind examination of the Amazon's trees found that as many as half the species may be threatened with extinction or heading that way because of massive deforestation.

“DiCaprio is a cool guy, isn’t he? Giving money to set the Amazon on fire,” the president said to supporters in Brasilia.

In past decades, indigenous communities have suffered fatal epidemics, including swine flu which killed at least seven Yanomami Indians in 2009, while influenza and malaria -- often brought in by miners and loggers -- have hit other forest tribes.

A Canadian woman has died after becoming ill while drinking tea at a retreat in Peru. She reacted to a tea designed to make people vomit and cleanse the body.

A win would have put the U.S. into the second round, but it can still advance with at least a draw against Germany in the next game.