A planned $2.5 billion potash mine in the rainforest is billed as key to Brazil’s expanding agricultural exports and to the economic security of the indigenous population.

By Brad Haynes BELEM, Brazil (Reuters) -Google has struck its biggest carbon removal deal, agreeing to finance restoration of the Amazon rainforest with Brazilian startup Mombak, as big tech hunts for high-quality credits to offset emissions tied to energy-hungry data centers.

Brazil’s leader, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, says he wants the future of the Amazon rainforest to be built around a major fund that will pay countries to keep their forests standing

Brazil, which is hosting the 30th U.N. Climate Change Conference this month, wants to show the world it is a leader in safeguarding the planet. Its record tells a more complicated story.

Rubber tapper Manoel Magno, 71, walks through the jungle surrounding his house on the river island of Cotijuba in the Amazon, inspecting the trees like a father might his children.

Brazilian police with support from Interpol have destroyed 277 dredges used in illegal gold mining along the Madeira River in one of the largest coordinated crackdowns in the Amazon.

At COP, Brazil is presenting itself as an Amazon defender. But a key measure to slow deforestation is in grave peril.

Indigenous lands in Brazil's Amazon rainforest absorb far more climate changing gases than they emit, in stark contrast to non-indigenous areas where substantial forest loss means Amazon land is fuelling global emissions,