New research underscores the importance of community-based Amazon rainforest conservation and highlights the role of local ...

The Amazon alone saw its “most devastating” fire season in over two decades, despite slowing deforestation. Last year, ...

The vast tropical forest nations of Brazil and Indonesia are both home to millions of people, including Indigenous ...

Climate skeptics are targeting new research on the Amazon to downplay global warming's impact on rainforests as Brazil ...

JBS and the EU’s Exposure to Human Rights Violations and Illegal Deforestation in Pará, Brazil,” details how cattle ranchers ...

Brazilian farmers are lobbying to roll back deforestation restrictions in order to sell more soybeans to the huge Chinese ...

Illegal cattle ranching has devastated the territories of small farmers and Indigenous peoples in Pará, the state that will ...

The Amazon rainforest is one of the world's greatest natural resources, both in terms of the resources it contains and its role in producing oxygen and cleaning the world's air. The forest stores up ...

Avoiding products that drive deforestation is an easy step one ...

An annual progress report shows that agriculture and wildfires continue to decimate forests despite a global promise to stop ...

A majority of Brazilians believe President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva should ban oil exploration off the coast of the Amazon ...

(THE CONVERSATION) As the planet warms, it risks crossing catastrophic tipping points: thresholds where Earth systems, such as ice sheets and rain forests, change irreversibly over human lifetimes.