The mounting pressure on Brazil’s federal environmental agency (IBAMA) to approve the disastrous project to extract oil from the mouth of the Amazon River (see here and here) should be interpreted as ...

Petrobras (NYSE:PBR) +0.4% on Monday after saying Brazil's Ibama environmental agency awarded a license to drill one exploratory well in the Foz do Amazonas region near the mouth of the Amazon river, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Magnificent frigate birds (Fregata magnificens) make long foraging trips far over the Atlantic Ocean. A brown-throated sloth ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Brazil’s environmental agency, IBAMA, approved a key step that could soon allow Petrobras, the nation’s state oil company, to begin offshore oil ...

Brazil’s state-controlled oil major Petrobras has received long-awaited approval from environmental regulator Ibama to begin exploratory drilling in the Foz do Amazonas basin, a deepwater region near ...

Brazil sold extraction rights to 19 oil and gas blocks near the mouth of the Amazon river Tuesday, at an auction slammed by environmentalists months before the country is to host a UN climate summit.

ExxonMobil Executive Camila Borges places her bid to explore the Amazon basin during an oil blocks auction by Brazil's Oil and Gas Regulatory Agency (ANP) in Rio de ...