In northwest Brazil, officials are aiming to pave a 560-mile road connecting the Amazon-adjacent states of Amazonas and Roraima to the rest of the country. The highway, BR-319, is currently mostly ...

A record number of wildfires are burning in the Venezuelan Amazon, as a drought driven by climate ... past 30 to 90 days in Venezuela and Brazil's Roraima state, according to Michael Coe, tropics ...

In Roraima State, in northern Brazil ... by a disastrous combination of elevated temperatures, historic drought and deforestation. Even as the year-old government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva ...