Brazilian authorities are preparing to remove illegal gold miners from an Indigenous reservation in the Amazon rainforest ...

Brazilian police have indicted a Colombian fish trader as the person who planned the slayings of Indigenous expert Bruno ...

Authorities in Brazil trying to protect the Amazon from illegal deforestation have long relied on satellite images to alert ...

In 2006, environmental nonprofits and some of the world’s largest soybean traders came together in a landmark “soy moratorium ...

Brazil’s Amazon dry season just ended with a staggering 846% increase in burned forest area compared to the year before ...

By Fernanda Wenzel Unlike land grabbers and illegal cattle ranchers, who knock thousands of hectares of trees down within a ...

The head of Brazil's environmental agency Ibama chose to not reject a request from state oil company Petrobras to drill near ...

Brazil's environmental agency has levied $64 million in fines against 23 meatpacking companies and their suppliers for buying and selling cattle raised illegally on deforested land in the Amazon.

The estimate comes from the National Institute for Space Research, which tracks Brazil’s official deforestation rate. This surge in fire comes one year before the Amazon city of Belem will host ...

Authorities use satellites to track deforestation caused by chain saws or fire. Now criminals are using chemicals to degrade trees — and evade detection. Authorities use satellites to track ...

Soy farming is one of the biggest drivers of deforestation in the Amazon. Cargill says on its website that it will eliminate deforestation from its supply chain in Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay by ...

The estimate comes from the National Institute for Space Research, which tracks Brazil's official deforestation rate. This surge in fire comes one year before the Amazon city of Belem will host ...