A justice on Brazil's top court on Thursday suspended a law from the country's top soy-producing state that would end tax ...

When created in 2006, the Triunfo do Xingu Environmental Protection Area in the Brazilian Amazon was supposed ... and become a conduit for deforestation into nearby protected areas.

In the midst of a “heartbreaking” climate change conference in Baku, Azerbaijan, last month, there was one strikingly ...

By Rhett A. Butler The year 2024 saw significant developments in tropical rainforest conservation, deforestation, and ...

Brazil (AP) — The next United Nations climate conference, COP30, will be held in Belem, the capital of an Amazon region where ...

Preventing further deforestation in Brazil’s southern Amazon could slow the trend. If clear-cutting continues apace, farmers of all stripes (including cattle ranchers) are expected to face even ...

News earlier this year that Asian clothing factories supplying H&M and Zara were buying cotton linked to deforestation and ...

In 2023, deforestation rates fell by 62 percent in the Amazon and 12 percent in Brazil overall (though deforestation in the Cerrado, Brazil’s tropical savannas, increased). So far in 2024 ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Paraguayan authorities arrested 26 people in a crackdown on suspected illegal deforestation along the ...

BRASILIA, Brazil — The next United Nations climate conference, COP30, will be held in Belem, the capital of an Amazon region where widespread deforestation mainly driven by cattle farming has ...

the capital of an Amazon region where widespread deforestation has turned the surrounding rainforest from a vital carbon sink into a significant carbon source BRASILIA, Brazil -- The next United ...

The next United Nations climate conference, COP30, will be held in Belem, the capital of an Amazon ... of deforestation risk is based on the number of cattle bought from ranchers in each Brazilian ...