Indigenous leader Filipe Gabriel Mura stands before Soares Lake in Brazil’s Amazon, looking out at the amber waters that are surrounded by a jagged shoreline that has been home for centuries to Indigenous people known as Mura.

A state of emergency has been declared in the Brazilian Amazon after massive sinkholes opened up, threatening thousands of homes. Several buildings in the city of Buriticupu, in Maranhão state, have already been destroyed, with around 1,200 people at risk of losing their homes to the widening abyss.

Brazil’s Federal Prosecutor’s Office is suing the giant mining company Vale, the Brazilian government and the Amazon state of Para over heavy metal contamination found in the bodies of Xikrin Indigenous people.

Despite presiding over a major cut-down of Amazon deforestation, Brazil's left-wing president has raised environmentalists' concerns by greenlighting expanded oil exploration in the crucial rainforest

The mounting pressure on Brazil’s federal environmental agency (IBAMA) to approve the disastrous project to extract oil from the mouth of the Amazon River (see here and here) should be interpreted as evidence that President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (known as “Lula”) fails to comprehend both the climate crisis and the consequences of the

Visions from the Amazon, the new exhibition at London’s Peltz Gallery until 9 April 2025, features photographs by Claudia Andujar alongside paintings by

A city in Brazil has declared a state of emergency after a number of huge sinkholes opened up in recent weeks. Several buildings in the city of Buriticupu, in the north eastern tip of the Brazilian Amazon, have already been destroyed with 1,200 people at risk of losing their homes to the widening abyss.

As a physician who has cared for many patients with this deadly disease in Africa, I marveled at how this one tree has saved millions upon millions of lives.

COP30 president André Corrêa do Lago defended climate multilateralism and called for cooperation in his first address at the UN