SAO PAULO, May 12 (Reuters) - Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest fell 68% in April from the previous year, preliminary government data showed on Friday, a positive reading for President ...

SAO PAULO, June 7 (Reuters) - Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest fell almost 10% in May from the previous year, preliminary government data showed on Wednesday, as President Luiz Inacio ...

Deforestation is also a factor, said Alves, helping raise temperatures and change rainfall patterns. “Ongoing ecosystem degradation (is) pushing the region toward a potential tipping point ...

They are expected to increase pressure on the company, which was recently the subject of a Senate hearing because of its supply chain’s links to deforestation. The United States is JBS’s ...

Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest slowed by nearly half compared to the year before, according to government satellite data released Wednesday. It’s the largest reduction since 2016 ...

And that rarely prioritized issue is global deforestation. Despite trillions of dollars at stake, forest destruction—and the corporate role in driving it—is still widely treated as a ...

Two decades later, the legend of mokele-mbembe remains alive, whispered in villages and embellished with each new “sighting,” and Abong’o says deforestation is the reason why. The Congo ...

Deforestation has surged in Brazil's Cerrado, a vast tropical savanna region, by nearly 45% compared to 2022 levels, according to data released Friday by the government's monitoring agency. The ...

It’s a hot morning in the Lampung province on the southern edge of Sumatra and coffee grower Wiyono is leading two field agents to his farm, one holding a 2-meter black pole with a GPS unit on ...

Climate change, deforestation and unusual weather phenomena are driving the worst drought in Brazil since records began seven decades ago and the highest number of forest fires seen in 14 years.

By Manuela Andreoni Reporting from Rio de Janeiro. Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil fell to a five-year low, the country’s National Institute of Space Research announced on ...

Many big companies working in agriculture and other sectors that drive deforestation won’t hit their climate targets without immediate action to protect forests, according to a study published ...