One of the main social and economic challenges facing Amazonian countries is inequality.  Although the standard of living of the lower economic strata is better now than at any time in history, tens ...

To top it all off, Stoppe used the deforested areas as illegal cattle ranches. Investigators make disturbing discovery ...

Wildfires in Brazil last year consumed a total area larger than all of Italy, a monitor reported Wednesday, as the country ...

“It was never a promise that JBS was going to make this happen,” Weller said about the net-zero emissions pledge. He also ...

Carbon markets investor Silvania, backed by Swiss-trading house Mercuria and two non-profits, announced a $1.5 billion fund ...

A carbon markets investor backed by Mercuria collaborates with non-profits to raise an initial $1.5 billion aimed at ...

A carbon markets investor backed by Swiss-trading house Mercuria said on Wednesday it had joined with two non-profits to ...

And those fires contributed to deforestation, with authorities suspecting some fires were set to more easily clear land to run cattle. The Amazon is twice the size of India and sprawls across ...

According to the Brazilian Federal Police, Bruno Heller is one of Amazon's largest deforesters and relied on legal and technical advice, including a fake contract, bribing police officers, and ...

One of the biggest drivers of deforestation in the Amazon is industrial farming. Setting fire to the forest is one of the main ways humans get rid of trees. Burning trees also makes the forest ...

Sources: Global Forest Watch/RAISG Map data: Natural Earth *including the biogeographical limits, administrative regions and basins Outer limits of the pan-Amazon region* Quito Lima La Paz ...

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