Brazil's Amazon state of Rondonia has passed a law in favor of cattle ranchers who converted a large area of rainforest ...

BELEM, Brazil — In the run-up to the annual ... because the road is expected to cut across the last remnants of rainforest in ...

Global demand for agricultural goods is increasingly being shaped by geopolitical forces like the ongoing trade war. Brazil's ...

Each dry season, farmers carve up and burn hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of acres in one of the world’s largest ...

A justice on Brazil’s Supreme Court has ordered the federal government to seize private properties when owners are found ...

Despite the US climate retreat and the risk of forest arson, the chief executive of COP30 sees the transition to ...

Global brands are driving commodity risk and deforestation through their supply chains—exposing themselves to growing legal, ...

The Madeira River, the largest tributary of the Amazon, has been losing water flow over the last 20 years while facing severe ...

It demands stronger federal and state policies to protect the Amazon rainforest and Pantanal wetlands. Both regions have suffered devastating, mostly man-made wildfires since 2020. Brazil’s ...