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 ...

The Brazilian Amazon witnessed a 7% annual drop in the amount of deforested land in 2024, even as the area affected by degradation increased multiple times over, according to a report published Friday ...

In the Amazon, fire outbreaks grew out of control even amid a sharp reduction in deforestation rates, indicating deforesters are relying on fire as a new technique to clear land. Experts are ...

One of the biggest drivers of deforestation in the Amazon is industrial farming. Setting fire to the forest is one of the main ways humans get rid of trees. Burning trees also makes the forest ...

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

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 ...

JBS, the world’s largest meat packer, became in 2021 the first of its peers to commit to cutting or offsetting ...

Malaysia says EU deforestation law presents challenges ... by the Brazilian agribusiness firm with native species from the Amazon rainforest, it said on Monday. Brazil startup partners with ...

A carbon markets investor backed by Swiss-trading house Mercuria said today it had joined with two non-profits to raise an initial $1.5 billion to help protect the Amazon, by working with Brazilian ...

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