By Fernanda Wenzel In effect for the past 18 years, the soy moratorium seemed established in Brazil. The voluntary agreement ...

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon dropped by 7% in 2024 compared to 2023, according to an analysis by Imazon, a Brazil-based organization that uses satellite imagery to monitor changes in the ...

impact investors and financial institutions to promote a nature-based economy in the Amazon biome, which is under grave threat from deforestation for timber and illegal mining. According to the ...

And those fires contributed to deforestation, with authorities suspecting some fires were set to more easily clear land to run cattle. The Amazon is twice the size of India and sprawls across ...

Deforestation dramatically worsened under Lula's far-right predecessor Jair Bolsonaro, whose administration saw Amazon deforestation shoot up 75 percent compared to the average of the previous decade.

Brazil’s INPE space research agency data showed deforestation soaring 29.5% to 9,762 square kilometers for the 12 months through July 2019 Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest rose to ...

Though the Amazon rainforest proved a useful screen ... Should the recent rates of deforestation continue, experts warn, the implications will prove devastating for us all. Marisela Silva Parra ...

Previous support and pledges from the United States have helped to slow forest loss in Brazil. Will Trump reverse that ...

As deforestation increases in the Amazon, it will decrease precipitation in California and create drier conditions in ...

With Donald Trump settling back into the White House, advocates for the Amazon worry about what his second term will mean for ...

The report contrasts these investments with Lula da Silva's recent promise to cut deforestation by 72% by the same date and to set up an international fund for protecting the Amazon.

Coles says it is actively working towards making a formal commitment to eliminate deforestation from its supply chains, ...