Brazil’s biggest soy producers have withdrawn from the soy moratorium, a pledge to avoid Amazon deforestation.

This story was originally published by Grist with the headline A major agreement to protect the Amazon is falling apart after ...

A group representing some of the world’s largest soybean traders is exiting a landmark deal created in Brazil to protect the ...

In communities around the Amazon Rainforest, there's a pervasive belief that large landowners use their money to influence ...

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

Think of the destruction of Earth's rainforests and a familiar image may come to mind: fires or chainsaws tearing through ...

The world’s largest buyers of Brazilian soy have announced a plan to exit from a landmark antideforestation agreement, the ...

The Amazon rainforest is a biological jackpot, a climate regulator, and a living history book all at once. Scientists are ...

A team of scientists based in Brazil recently reported that they discovered a new species of Tinamou in the mountains of the ...

Beneath the rising sun, people from nearby Indigenous communities navigate across the Vaupés River in traditional wooden ...

Brazilian oil regulator ANP has told Petrobras that it cannot resume offshore drilling in the Foz do Amazonas basin until it ...

A synthetic fluid leak of about 15 cubic meters (19.6 cubic yards) has halted Brazilian state-run oil firm Petrobras' ...