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Scientists issue Amazon warning as up to 47% of rainforest at risk
The vital ecosystem could also flip between rainforest and Savanna-like vegetation if drought deepens, the research finds.
WATCH: Brazil's indigenous women march to protect their lands
Brazil's Supreme Court is debating the "time-frame argument" that says indigenous people cannot claim land as their own if they were not living there in 1988.
Amazon nations seek common voice on climate change
Eight Amazon nations called on industrialized countries to do more to help preserve the world's largest rainforest as they met at a major summit in Brazil to chart a common course on how to combat climate change.
Two-day Amazon summit set to focus on climate change and human rights
Eight South American countries are meeting in Brazil to thrash out co-ordinated policies for the Amazon basin.
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Children found alive in the Amazon 40 days after plane crash
The frantic search for survivors began on 1 May after a single-engine propeller plane carrying six passengers crashed in the Amazon jungle.
WATCH: Indigenous Brazilians march ahead of trial over land future
Indigenous Brazilians marched through Brasilia on Tuesday ahead of a hearing on a proposed law that will limit their land rights.
Calls for justice for duo murdered in Amazon rain forest a year ago
A year after their deaths, relatives led demonstrations in several Brazilian cities in memory of a British journalist and an indigenous expert murdered in the Amazon rain forest. Dom Phillips was an environmental reporter and Bruno Pereira was his guide.
Oil spill in Ecuador's Amazon region a result of 'sabotage'
The spill was captured in a video by the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of the Ecuadorian Amazon, 10km from Lago Agrio, the capital of Sucumbios in northeast Ecuador.
Brazil's Lula recognises 1,200 square km of Indigenous land
Brazil has recognised six Indigenous areas, most of which are in the threatened Amazon rainforest.
Brazil: Illegal mining has caused Indigenous ‘genocide’, Lula says
President Lula wants to reduce deforestation and gold mining in the Amazon. He has done so in the past - during his 2003-2010 tenure in office, Amazon deforestation dropped by 72 per cent.
Brazil makes official bid to host UN climate talks in Amazonia
The north eastern city of Belem has been named as the potential host of COP30 as President Lula fulfils promises made at COP27.
Santa Claus delivers presents in the Amazon
A charity aims to give presents to 4,500 children in poor communities along Brazil's Amazon by sending Santa Claus to see them on a river boat.
Watch : Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon reaches a record high
Deforestation in the Brazilian part of the Amazon rainforest has hit a record level, the highest since satellite tracking began in 2015, according to government data.
Forest fires and illegal deforestation devastate the Brazilian Amazon
Fires in the Brazilian Amazon increased 18 per cent compared to last year, while deforestation is at a record high, according to Greenpeace Brazil.
Fires ravage Brazil's Amazon rainforest
Fires rage in the Amazon rainforest, near Porto Velho, state of Rondonia, northern Brazil. Experts say the fires are caused mainly by illegal farmers, ranchers and speculators clearing land and torching the trees.
Lula vows to restore ties with EU if elected Brazil's next president
Presidential hopeful, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, vows to restore ties with EU if he is elected in October.