Claros SÃO PAULO/WAGENINGEN – Between November 2023 and October 2024, the Amazon rainforest faced yearly average ...

Meanwhile, Brazil’s Fundação Nacional dos Povos Indígenas (National Foundation of Indigenous Peoples, or Funai) estimates ...

The young man from an Indigenous Amazonian tribe is receiving medical treatment, while authorities prepare to attempt ...

A powerful Brazilian soy grower lobby is recommending farmers reject the inclusion in soy purchase and sale contracts of the ...

Journalists typically treat corruption as an issue of governance. However, dishonesty is not an attribute of constitutional ...

One of South America’s largest ecosystems saw an increase in deforestation last year, with agriculture, livestock and fires contributing the most to the destruction of native dry forests. The problem ...

A member of the nearby Juma tribe was expected to arrive at the base on Friday to try to communicate with the tribesman ...

By Shanna Hanbury Commodity-trading giant Cargill recently signaled that it will weaken its no-deforestation commitments in ...

Biodiversity loss has accelerated at an alarming rate in recent decades, driven largely by human activities such as clearing ...

Expanding aquaculture in the Amazon could provide nutritional and economic benefits at a fraction of the environmental cost ...

Deforestation has long been a challenge for Brazil – where decades of over-farming and logging operations have taken a toll and seriously threatened the Amazon rainforest and the indigenous ...

In Manaus, a sprawling city of more than 2 million, the depth of the Rio Negro, a major branch of the Amazon River, reached ...