Preventing further deforestation in Brazil’s southern Amazon could slow the trend. If clear-cutting continues apace, farmers ...

It is the first time the endangered species of monkey has been bred by the team at the Lanarkshire family attraction.

Several states in Brazil are trying to rid themselves of rainforest protections, bowing to pressures from cattle ranchers and ...

Trees and forests are often described as the lungs of the Earth because of their important role in removing pollutants such as carbon dioxide from the environment. New research from the University of ...

Surveys of the Brazilian cattle ranching industry have found that there is still a serious lack of transparency throughout the beef supply chain, including from slaughterhouses and retailers. This ...

Over 1.3 million acres of some of the tallest and most valuable trees in the Amazon rainforest have been recognized as a protected area by the Brazilian state of Pará.

animals, and even people. Indigenous communities and rural towns near these areas often bear the brunt, with reports of ...

Located near the confluence of the Solimões and Japurá rivers, Lake Amanã, which means “the path of the rain,” is known as ...

Elon Musk, the newly appointed “first bro” of the US, has identified three criteria for the Department of Government ...

Policy changes that have disincentivized deforestation of the Amazon for agriculture in Brazil are credited with reducing ...

Brazilian policy changes that disincentivized deforestation for agriculture resulted in thousands of avoided hospitalizations ...

The power imbalance in Brazil's government that keeps environmental protections and Indigenous rights under threat.