Nearly 20 years ago, a Brazilian lobbying group for soy trading and processing companies signed onto a historic conservation ...

For nearly 20 years, Brazil’s largest soy producers assured buyers that their harvest — the world’s biggest — wasn't grown on ...

Research investigate whether the size and pattern of deforestation matters, suggesting that guiding clearing can mitigate ...

By Shanna Hanbury The world’s largest buyers of Brazilian soy have announced a plan to exit from a landmark antideforestation ...

In the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve in the Brazilian Amazon, locals tap rubber and extract Brazil nuts from the rainforest ...

A group representing some of the world’s largest soybean traders is exiting a landmark deal created in Brazil to protect the ...

In a room at the back of her house, Vera Alves da Silva Oliveira keeps the air-conditioning on day and night to protect bags of seeds gathered by hand from Brazil’s Amazon rainforest and Cerrado ...

Brazil’s Triunfo do Xingu Environmental Protection Area encompasses an area of Amazon Rainforest more than half the size of ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest fell by 11% from August 2024 to July this year, the government said Thursday, even as wildfires tracked by Brazil’s space agency surged ...

Many locals are cheering on the Brazilian government’s plans to rebuild a decrepit highway. Environmentalists are less keen ...

Researchers caution that the Amazon rainforest could disappear in the next hundred years, due to the combined effects of climate change and deforestation, and a new model predicts how that could ...