Deep in the Amazonas region of Brazil, Mayleane Melo leans on her red sofa to ease the pain of a contraction. Her baby is coming. Next to her is Tabita dos Santos Moraes - one of hundreds of midwives ...

Petrobras PBR, Brazil’s oil and gas company, is under pressure to get approval from Ibama, the country’s environmental agency, for its planned drilling in the Foz do Amazonas region. The company must ...

Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras PBR, in a crucial move to gain approval for offshore drilling in Brazil’s Foz do Amazonas region, has completed construction of a veterinary center in the Amazon ...

Petrobras PBR, Brazil’s state-controlled oil giant, has secured a key regulatory approval to initiate emergency response drills in the Foz do Amazonas basin, situated near the mouth of the Amazon ...

Petrobras (NYSE:PBR) needs to be granted an environmental license to drill in the sensitive Foz do Amazonas region by the end of April or it will run out of time before the contract with a drilling ...

An environmental science researcher in Sweden has examined the geochemical status of the natural environment in the Amazonas Region, and to what extent it has been impacted by deforestation and ...