Illegal logging, gold mining, and drug trafficking: Organized crime in Brazil is sabotaging efforts to combat global warming. This issue has long been overlooked at climate conferences. Is that ...

No other countries have followed the United States in withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement, but the Trump administration is using a mix of lobbying and economic threats to thwart ...

World leaders are gathering in the home of the Amazon rainforest for the start of the COP30 climate conference. Climate action -- including implementing and adapting solutions to significantly reduce ...

This year’s U.N. climate summit, COP30, opened with a moment that should have set the tone for a new era. Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva declared it the “COP of Truth,” rooted in the ...

Brazil's Minister of Environment Marina Silva (L) and Brazil's Minister of Indigenous Peoples Sonia Guajajara participate in the opening of the Pre-COP30 meeting, as part of the preparations for the ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The White House has opted to not send any high-ranking U.S. officials to the U.N.’s annual COP global climate ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Three hundred mayors from major world cities gathered in Rio de Janeiro to pledge coordinated climate action days ...

BELEM, Brazil (AP) — With a spotlight on the Brazilian Amazon, where agriculture drives a significant chunk of deforestation and planet-warming emissions, many of the activists, scientists and ...

World climate negotiations are entering the final days in Belem, Brazil. Those discussions were brought to a standstill today when a fire erupted, forcing people to evacuate. NPR's Julia Simon is ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Despite historic environmental rollbacks under a president who pulled the United ...