Brazilian Amazon states are leading an offensive against environmental regulations in the Amazon and beyond. The movement gained momentum in October when Brazil’s granary, Mato Grosso state, approved ...

Major soy traders operating in Brazil announced in early January that they would abandon one ofthe world’s most successful zero-deforestation agreements, known as the soy moratorium. As a result, ...

Pope Francis meets with members of the Ecclesial Conference of the Amazon (CEAMA) and the Pan-Amazonian Ecclesial Network (REPAM) at the Vatican on Monday, June 3, 2024. (Credit: Vatican Media.) ...

GW is an institution whose students, faculty and staff care and depend on a just and sustainable future, and the University cannot hypocritically abandon these goals to gain financially from ...

In a recent survey of 800 Amazon corporate employees, significant concerns have emerged regarding the company’s leadership and its environmental practices. The survey, which included both virtual ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Primary forest loss across the Amazon Basin since 2002. At the center of government-led efforts to reduce deforestation are measures to protect and ...

In Brazil’s Amazon, people are trapped in a vicious cycle in which deforestation begets poverty, and poverty begets deforestation. Already, more than a fifth of the country’s rainforest has vanished.

On Wednesday, Amazon claimed that it reached its goal of sourcing all its power from clean energy sources in the past year. If taken at face value, the announcement would mean it hit the milestone ...

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Dozens of environmental nonprofits issued a manifesto Thursday condemning new laws in Brazilian states that threaten to dismantle the Amazon soy moratorium — a landmark ...

2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that’s a critical counterweight to climate change. A warming climate fed ...

FILE - Highway BR-163 stretches between the Tapajos National Forest, left, and a soy field in Belterra, Para state, Brazil, on Nov. 25, 2019. (AP Photo/Leo Correa, File) BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Dozens ...