A report of Brazil’s Amazon beef industry published reveals that slaughterhouses complying with a settlement agreement are ...

By Shanna Hanbury The Brazilian government blocked 545 rural properties in the Amazonian state of Pará from selling crops and ...

Deforestation isn't the only issue for leather sourced from Brazil. Its labor-intensive yet fractured supply chains are often ...

Global brands are driving commodity risk and deforestation through their supply chains—exposing themselves to growing legal, ...

Brazil's Minister of the Environment and Climate Change Marina Silva takes part in the 11th Meeting of Environment Ministers ...

A settlement involving federal prosecutors and Brazilian meat packers has helped wean much of the country's beef supply chain ...

In 2024, over 89 percent of the deforested area in the country was in the Amazon or the cerrado. Savannah formations (cerrado ...

A new road in Belem, Brazil, set to open before COP30, is drawing criticism for cutting through rainforest and threatening ...

Forests are essential to life as we know it. They play a vital role as carbon sinks and climate regulators, they are habitats for a wealth of biodiversity, home to 300 million people and support the ...

BELEM, Brazil -- In the run-up to the annual U.N. climate conference, set to take place in Brazil’s Amazon in November, the construction of a road is drawing attention, with critics arguing it will ...

One of the beneficiaries of the amnesty is likely to be JBS SA, the world’s largest meatpacker, which is poised to start ...

The expectation that illegally used land will become sanctioned has been the main driver of deforestation in the Amazon. Land-grabbers clear land in hopes it will eventually be legalized due to ...