Standard Chartered has agreed to sell millions of carbon credits aimed at protecting the Amazon rainforest on behalf of the ...

Over the past 12 months, deforestation in Brazil’s Cerrado biome dropped by 20%, while the Amazon saw a 4% rise in alerts. In ...

New state-level legislation in Brazil, including the withdrawal of tax incentives for companies adhering to the ASM, is ...

Brazil's Climate Observatory has called the bill the "biggest environmental setback" since Brazil's military dictatorship, in ...

Having receded by 350 million hectares (almost 865 million acres) since 1850, trends in Latin American forests are now ...

The command-and-control approach to reducing or eliminating environmental wrongdoing depends on both carrots and sticks. The ...

In the Pantanal, deforestation decreased by 72 percent, dropping to 319 km² from 1,148 km² in the previous period. The biome ...

Brazil’s environment minister is battling over recent legislation that could gut national environmental protection rules, three months before the country hosts the world’s most important climate ...

This year's United Nations climate conference in November is in Belem, Brazil, a city facing high poverty and infrastructure ...

Mining in Brazil does not deliver the sustained economic benefits often claimed, while informal mining is a major driver of ...

Lula approved the controversial bill easing environmental licensing rules, but struck down or altered 63 articles.