The next United Nations climate conference will be held in Belem, the capital of an Amazon region where widespread ...

Cleared or degraded tropical forests around the world covering a combined area larger than Saudi Arabia could regrow on its own, according to new research published Oct. 30 in the journal Nature.

Amazon timber from carbon credit projects targeted by the Brazilian Federal Police was sold to companies in Europe and the ...

By Karla Mendes The European Union’s deforestation-free products regulation (EUDR) won’t affect the operations of Brazil’s ...

Dozens of environmental nonprofits issued a manifesto Thursday condemning new laws in Brazilian states that threaten to ...

International grain trading firms operating in Brazil will vote next week on changes that could weaken an agreement to not ...

The current agreement bars soy purchases from a whole farm if it includes areas deforested since 2008. But traders now propose a distinction between individual soy fields, letting growers export ...

The restoration of the Amazon rainforest will be part of President Lula's (PT) government concession plans. The Ministry of ...

The effects are starkest in the most deforested regions. In areas where more than 80% of the forest has been cleared, the onset of the rainy season has been delayed by 76 days since 1980.

FILE - Cattle walk along an illegally deforested area in an extractive reserve near Jaci-Parana, Rondonia state, Brazil, July 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Andre Penner, File) BRASILIA, Brazil (AP ...

A new study shows that 215 million hectares (531 million acres) of degraded and deforested land in the tropics ... around the world covering a combined area larger than Saudi Arabia could regrow ...

Meatpackers buying from high-deforestation areas are more likely to source from ... to be buying cattle and cow leather from recently deforested land: Mercurio, Mafrinorte and Frigol.