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

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.

By Shanna Hanbury Nearly all deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon in the past year was illegal, a new report finds. Between ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...