Brazil’s biggest soy producers have withdrawn from the soy moratorium, a pledge to avoid Amazon deforestation.

The Brazilian government said on Thursday that deforestation in its portion of the Amazon rainforest has fallen for the fourth consecutive year. Brazil is home to the largest part of the Amazon River ...

Activists protest in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in October in front of a mural painted with ashes from the fires ravaging the country. The mural, by Brazilian artist Mundano, was unveiled with a demand that ...

The Amazon’s worst fire season in decades is turning the rainforest into a massive carbon emitter.

BOGOTA, Colombia — Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest fell by 11% from August 2024 to July this year, the government said Thursday, even as wildfires tracked by Brazil’s space agency surged ...

Brazil’s Triunfo do Xingu Environmental Protection Area encompasses an area of Amazon Rainforest more than half the size of ...

* Brazilian farmers are pushing soy crops deeper into Amazon * Powerful farm lobby attacks Amazon Soy Moratorium * Regrown rainforest does not get the same protection SANTAREM, Brazil, June 20 ...

Brazil’s antitrust regulator suspended a key mechanism for rainforest protection, the Amazon Soy Moratorium, on Aug. 18, less than three months before the nation hosts the COP30 climate summit. The ...

Deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon increased 278 percent year-over-year in July, according to official data released Tuesday by a government institute embroiled in a row with President Jair ...

Some of the world's largest soybean traders are preparing to break their agreement to curb deforestation of the Amazon ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest fell by 11% from August 2024 to July this year, the government said Thursday, even as wildfires tracked by Brazil’s space agency ...