Brazil’s Mato Grosso state lost almost 50,000 hectares to illegal logging in one year, data shows. Criminal groups were ...

Traders have been warned that they are putting their supply chains at risk if they go ahead with plans to depart a Brazilian ...

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

Environment Ministry Executive Secretary Joao Paulo Capobianco presents Amazon and Cerrado deforestation data at the ministry headquarters in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024. (AP ...

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 ...

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 Amazon rainforest lost 6 ...

Brazil’s Attorney General has recommended a four-month delay to a state law that will remove tax benefits from crop traders ...

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest has decreased by 46 percent compared to the previous year, government satellite data released on Wednesday showed. Brazil is the world's fifth-largest ...

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon remains near a six-year low, with 561 square kilometers cleared in September, a 30% decline from the previous year. Fires in the Amazon have surged dramatically, ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. More worrisome now is the deforestation in the Cerrado, a tropical savanna roughly ...

Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest slowed by nearly half compared to the year before, according to government satellite data released Wednesday. It’s the largest reduction since 2016, when ...

Brazil announced a significant decrease in Amazon rainforest deforestation on Wednesday. Government officials reported a 30.6% drop in deforestation compared to the previous year. The data, spanning ...