A large-scale federal operation to remove cattle raised illegally in the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve has triggered ...

Months before hosting the U.N.'s first climate talks held in the Amazon, Brazil is fast-tracking a series of controversial ...

The ambitious move, if successful, could be a turning point in the struggle to halt the destruction of the world's largest ...

New research led by IIASA reveals a surprising link between two major climate-tipping elements: the Southern Amazon ...

The citizens of the Pan Amazon have a common complaint: the politicians and bureaucrats who manage the affairs of state ...

In Para, Brazil, ranchers are being urged to tag cattle to curb illegal deforestation and improve market access. Spearheading ...

record fire season in Brazil last year caused the rate of deforestation to accelerate, in a blow to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's pledge to protect the Amazon rainforest, official figures ...

Instead of blocking, or embargoing, properties flagged for deforestation one by one ... by Brazil’s federal police as one of the Amazon’s biggest land grabbers. Federal police allege that ...

particularly in the Amazon and Cerrado regions. As Brazil prepares to host COP30 in Belém, these findings highlight both advancements and ongoing challenges in combating deforestation.

Amazon deforestation fell 41% from 2023 to 2024, according to government data. In Altamira, the municipality where the banned areas are concentrated, deforestation dropped 61% in the same period.

The Amazon rainforest, often described as the lungs of the planet ... such as fishing, triggered widespread deforestation and environmental pollution. Worse yet, these dams contributed to the release ...

Like the Amazon rainforest, the Congo Basin plays ... governments have made little progress toward their pledges to fight deforestation. The rich nations of the world, in particular, had not ...