SANTAREM, Brazil (Reuters) -Brazilian soy farmers are pushing further into the Amazon rainforest to plant more of their crops ...

Brazilian soy farmers are pushing further into the Amazon rainforest to plant more of their crops, putting pressure on a ...

Amazon deforestation has steeply declined since the end of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro's rule in 2022. Under that government, forest loss reached a 15-year high.

How Amazon forest loss may affect water—and climate—far away. A surge in deforestation under Brazil's president could "tip" the Amazon, affecting weather and water supplies—in Brazil and beyond.

As Brazil prepares to host COP30, construction of a controversial highway through the Amazon rainforest has sparked criticism ...

Brazilian soy farmers are expanding into the Amazon, exploiting a loophole in the Amazon Soy Moratorium, which only protects ...

Brazilian soy farmers are exploiting a loophole in the Amazon Soy Moratorium by expanding cultivation into secondary forests, ...

Illegal cattle ranches clearing the Amazon rainforest are behind the leather in high-end handbags made by top European and ...

The rich plant life that makes up the Amazon rainforest contributes a significant amount of water vapour to Earth’s atmosphere. A recent study found that extensive deforestation here has caused a ...

Frequent forest fires and agricultural expansion are degrading soil health in the southern Brazilian Amazon. This results in ...

XINGUARA, Brazil -Decades of ranching in the Amazon have earned Roque Quagliato, Brazil’s “King of Cattle,” great wealth – and some trouble. His family's immense farms were accused of submitting ...

The world’s remaining great primary forests, including those in Borneo, the Amazon and the Congo basin, are still threatened ...