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

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

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 ...

When a massive tree toppled in the floodplains of Fonte Boa, a region in the Brazilian Amazon, local fishermen noticed ...

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 ...

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, ...

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

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 ...