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

Evangelical Christianity is spreading fast across the Amazon. The spiritual battle is reshaping the world’s biggest ...

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

Colombia’s government has reported a sharp overall rise in deforestation in the country’s Amazon rainforest for last year, ...

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

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

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

The BR-319 highway, which runs through the rainforest, connects the states of Amazonas and Roraima to the rest of Brazil.

Deforestation in Colombia surged last year, according to data from the country's environment ministry said on Thursday, as ...

Environmentalists warn that reconstructing BR‑319 without safeguards could increase deforestation rates fourfold. "We are knocking on the door of the collapse of the Amazon system," said Marcos ...

The Amazon remains Colombia’s most affected region, accounting for 69% of the country's deforestation. The departments — Colombia’s main administrative divisions — of Meta, Caquetá and ...

The push is part of a larger conservation effort led by UNEP. Its goal: to protect the fast-disappearing rainforests and peatlands of eight Congo Basin countries.