Brazil’s INPE space research agency data showed deforestation soaring 29.5% to 9,762 square kilometers for the 12 months through July 2019 Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest rose to ...

One of the beneficiaries of the amnesty is likely to be JBS SA, the world’s largest meatpacker, which is poised to start ...

Since then, Prevost deepened his ties with interfaith environmental networks like the Interfaith Rainforest Initiative ...

The NGO FERN and the Norwegian Rainforest Foundation are raising the alarm about the risks of deforestation that the ...

Cerro El Cono is a solitary, pyramidal hill in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest whose origins remain mysterious and that holds ...

Global demand for agricultural goods is increasingly being shaped by geopolitical forces like the ongoing trade war. Brazil's ...

In the run-up to the annual U.N. climate conference, set to take place in Brazil’s Amazon in November, the construction of a ...

Brazil’s Amazon state of Rondonia has passed a law in favor of cattle ranchers who converted a large area of rainforest inside ... which requires them to halt deforestation and submit a plan ...

lawmakers in the Brazilian state of Rondonia have passed legislation in favor of hundreds of cattle ranchers who had illegally converted swathes of Amazon rainforest into pasture land. The new ...