Trucker Erik Fransuer spends months at a time driving back and forth on highways that cut through the Amazon in northern Brazil, delivering soy or corn to river ports. Fransuer is one of thousands of ...

Forests flanking Brazil's rivers act as "highways" that have allowed tree species to move between the Amazon and Atlantic rainforests for millions of years, new research shows. The two rainforests are ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — In an unusual action ...

The continued failure to halt the BR-319 highway cutting through the Brazilian Amazon is an example of the systemic problem identified by Hannah Arendt in her study of the minister of transportation ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A government plan to pave a highway in the Amazon rainforest is prompting concerns from environmentalists who say the development ...

BRASILIA, Brazil — In an unusual action, a Brazilian federal court halted progress on a project to pave a dirt highway that connects the major city of Manaus to populous regions, ruling it likely will ...