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 ...

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

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

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

New data show that pressure on the ecosystem has intensified in Brazil and Peru during the first half of the year, while Colombia reports progress in curbing deforestation.

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

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

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

Rainforests are home to half of the world's plant and animal species. Here are the five largest rainforests in the world.

The Amazon Soy Moratorium may soon be scrapped. This could increase the chances of soy linked to deforestation entering the EU market before the EUDR comes into effect.