Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon dropped by 30.6% over the past year ... a controversial highway that scientists warn ...

The Lula administration has announced plans to increase fines for violators. New report uncovers disturbing factor driving ...

Brazil’s environment minister, a renowned former activist, helped push climate change to the top of President Lula’s agenda.

“The data is exceptionally alarming, it’s a very abrupt surge,” Ane Alencar, science director at the Amazon Environmental Research Institute, a Brazilian nonprofit, told The Associated Pres ...

And while DiCaprio’s Earth Alliance has been rallying support to save the rainforest, Bolsonaro’s administration has been bulldozing protections for the Amazon, with land clearing at an 11-year high.

Authorities use satellites to track deforestation caused by chain saws or fire. Now criminals are using chemicals to degrade ...

In Brazil’s Amazon, people are trapped in a vicious cycle ... used to cut down and burn trees to clear land for crops to support himself and his family. When the soil became depleted, he would ...

BRASILIA, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Brazil's environmental ... cattle ranching along with clearing land to sell timber or grow soy are driving deforestation in the Amazon rainforest.

Brazil's environmental agency levied $64 million in fines against 23 meatpacking and their suppliers companies for buying and ...

President Joe Biden will become the first sitting president to visit the Amazon rainforest later this month when he travels to Brazil as part of a six-day trip to Latin America for a pair of ...

Brazil Fines Meat Packers $64 Million for Buying Cattle From Deforested Amazon Land BRASILIA (Reuters ... Extensive cattle ranching along with clearing land to sell timber or grow soy are ...

BRASILIA: Brazil’s environmental protection agency ... Extensive cattle ranching along with clearing land to sell timber or ...