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In the Penha neighbourhood, a low-income area located in the North Zone of Rio de Janeiro, weeping and mourning residents surrounded the bodies of the dead.

People from around the world are beginning to gather at the gateway of the Amazon in Belem, Brazil, for the 30th annual United Nations climate summit, the Conference of the Parties, known less formally as COP30.

For corals to recover, the world would need to drastically ramp up climate action to reverse temperatures, the scientists suggested.

Federal officials say Canada will continue to play a bridge-builder role to help countries reach a consensus on some of the summit's key issues.

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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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 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,

A study has found that, since 2004, farmers and ranchers in Brazil have saved more than 86,000 square kilometres of rainforests from clear-cutting, keeping 2 billion tons of CO2 kept out of the atmosphere.

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.

Stupendemys geographicus lived over seven million years ago, weighed more than a ton and occupied wetlands where the Amazon rainforest now stands.

Heavy rain caused flooding and landslides that have killed 36 people in Brazil's north Sao Paulo state, officials said Sunday, and the fatalities could rise.