Andre Cabette Fabio

Brazil is bracing for the "high risk" that wildfires will ravage the Amazon rainforest and Pantanal wetlands in 2025 after the country faced a record drought last year, leaving many regions vulnerable and susceptible to renewed flames.

Even though much of Brazil is in the middle of the rainy season, most of the country faced drought at the beginning of the year, data from Brazil's National Water Agency showed. 

At the mouth of the Amazon River, Brazil's most promising oil frontier is at the centre of a dispute between environmentalists and South America's largest company.

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is pressuring the government's environment agency Ibama to drop its objections to allowing state-controlled oil energy Petrobras to drill for oil in the Equatorial Margin region, off the northeast coast.

Peruvian Indigenous leader Francisco Hernández Cayetano travelled hundreds of miles along the Amazon river basin this month to tell communities working for a decade on a project to protect the forest there was no money left.

The initiative is one of hundreds of conservation projects put in limbo by a Jan. 20 executive order signed by U.S. President Donald Trump that froze billions of dollars in foreign aid for 90 days.

As Brazil sets the legal basis for its carbon trade, environmentalists are doubtful on whether it will be able to lower the country's emissions - the sixth largest in the world according to the EU Emissions Database.

The rules do not put a limit on emissions from farming, the country's top carbon polluting sector, which accounts for about 74% of the country's emissions.

Overhunting, ecosystem destruction and climate change caused by human emissions are all contributing to a rapid decline of global biodiversity.

A new report released by the World Wildlife Fund, an NGO, highlights what humanity is losing as a result.

Amid all the bad climate news, the Amazon rainforest - the world's largest tropical forest - is finally teasing out some hope.

Fewer of its trees were felled this year in Brazil and governments are finally taking on some of its worst exploiters, helping preserve a key weapon in the fight against climate change.

As the world reaches record-breaking temperatures, three quarters of its land has become permanently drier over the last three decades, harming agriculture, nature and incomes, according to new U.N. figures.

Most of the shift is a result of human induced climate change, according to the report by the U.N. Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) released at global COP16 talks on desertification in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, which were due to wrap up on Friday.

Chief Farid Mariano walks proudly amid the trees, vegetables and roots growing in the Laranjeira Ñanderu territory in Brazil's Midwest, retaken by his Guarani and Kaiowá community from a private rancher.

Reoccupied by the Indigenous community in the last two decades, the degraded land has been restored for farming with a lot of hard work. 

Delegates at the U.N. COP29 in Azerbaijan have agreed on rules for governing the global carbon market, which allows governments and companies to curb emissions by trading carbon credits rather than necessarily cutting them directly.

The breakthrough comes nearly ten years after the idea for a central, U.N.-managed market was touted under Article 6 of the 2015 Paris Agreement to limit the rise in global temperatures.

As global leaders gather at the G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil's government hopes the launch of its Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty will become the hallmark of its G20 presidency.

Championed by Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the alliance that launched last week has so far drawn 81 participating members pledging to lift 500 million people out of poverty and hopes to reach its target of 100 countries in the coming months