Resident Manoel da Silva paddles his canoe through dead fish in the Parana de Manaquiri River, a tributary of the Amazon, near the city of Manaquiri November 22, 2009. After a rainy season that caused some of the worst flooding in recent history the...

Reforestation is expensive, difficult to plan, and even harder to execute. Success is subject to weather, pests, weeds, and continued maintenance.

The Amazon is the largest remaining rainforest on Earth and plays a major role in regulating the planet's climate. But tens of thousands of square kilometres of Amazon rainforest are destroyed each year by slash-and-burn practices, which local people...

Rock star Sting has used his latest visit to Brazil to urge the government there to listen to the concerns of indigenous peoples over a proposed new hydro-electric dam in the Amazon.