A large-scale federal operation to remove cattle raised illegally in the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve has triggered ...

A new bill recently approved by the Senate in Brazil undermines the licensing of projects that can have huge environmental ...

SAO PAULO, Brazil — With little fanfare and virtually ... of cattle ranchers who had illegally converted swathes of Amazon rainforest into pasture land. The new legislation, which was passed ...

Amazonian fish are facing an alarming new threat. A series of extreme droughts is drying up the region's rivers and wetlands ...

Brazil is a world leader in biofuel production, but the environmental sustainability ... contribute to discussions about threats the sector poses to the Amazon rainforest, and its overall impact ...

Supported by By Jack Nicas and Flávia Milhorance Reporting from Rio de Janeiro Brazil ... and other environmental organizations. Chemical deforestation poses a more insidious threat than ...

Decades of ranching in the Amazon have earned Roque Quagliato, Brazil's "King of Cattle," great wealth and some trouble. His ...

British journalist Dom Phillips had been working for years on a book about saving the Amazon when he was killed in the region ...

According to a 2023 audit by Brazil´s Federal Prosecution Service ... In exchange for the amnesty, cattle ranchers must join Rondonia's environmental regularization program, which requires ...