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

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

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

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

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

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva partially vetoed a controversial law that campaigners warned would gut ...

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

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Brazil’s largest Indigenous organization has launched the country’s first Native-led strategy to cut greenhouse gas emissions ...

He said Brazil, meanwhile, must keep its goals of lowering deforestation to zero by 2030 – although the objective seems hard to achieve. “The goals are ambitious, utopian, but must be followed.

According to the country's Ministry of Environment, deforestation in the first quarter of the year totaled 27,000 hectares, or about 67,000 acres -- a 33% decrease compared to the same period in 2024.

Deforestation in Brazil's rainforest has jumped around 67% in the first seven months of the year, according to preliminary data from Brazil's space research agency, which the government has ...