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 ...

Brazil saw a 32.4% decline in deforestation, with five out of six biomes experiencing reductions, MapBiomas -a network of ...

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

SAO PAULO (Reuters) -A settlement involving federal prosecutors and Brazilian meat packers has helped wean much of the ...

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

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

Deforestation slowed across all of Brazil’s major ecosystems in 2024 for the first time in six years, according to a report ...

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

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 ...

Brazil’s Amazon state of Rondonia has passed a law in favor of cattle ranchers who converted a large area of rainforest inside the Jaci-Parana conservation zone and turned it into pasture.