By Aimee Gabay A crackdown by the Brazilian government on land-grabbers who cleared primary Amazon forest for ranching and ...

Brazilian officials on Thursday announced a sharp drop in deforestation rates, pushing back on one of the arguments that the Trump administration used last week to justify additional tariffs on the ...

The events underscore the challenge of balancing conservation, Indigenous interests and pressure from agribusiness, one of ...

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon fell last year to its lowest level since 2019, according to a report from the MapBiomas ...

AGUA CLARA, Brazil — Forest loss in Brazil’s Amazon dropped by 30.6% compared to the previous year, officials said Wednesday, the lowest level of destruction in nine years. In a 12-month span, the ...

The decline in deforestation is largely due to the strengthening of monitoring and control mechanisms, but this could be undermined by a bill that restricts environmental enforcement ...

Brazil’s government has announced a $75 million investment in the BR-319 highway, a move environmentalists fear could speed up Amazon deforestation.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — Water levels in the Brazilian Amazon recovered in 2025 following two consecutive years of severe ...

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