By André Schröder Brazil is a country shaped by highways. The transportation model adopted by President Juscelino Kubitschek ...

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

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

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

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.

Earthsight claims fashion brands are buying leather for products like luxury bags that has links to illegal deforestation.

Brazil’s political landscape is also shifting in ways that could allow for more legal deforestation in the Amazon. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has advocated for more action on illegal ...

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

Brazil's Amazon state of Rondonia has passed a law in favor of cattle ranchers who converted a large area of rainforest inside the Jaci-Parana conservation zone and turned it into pasture.

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

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 ...