Environmental groups are skeptical about whether grain traders that supply livestock feed to global meat markets will keep ...

Brazil’s biggest soy producers have withdrawn from the soy moratorium, a pledge to avoid Amazon deforestation.

Human activity continues to expand ever further into wild areas, throwing ecology out of balance. But what begins as an ...

An interview with Virgilio Viana on protecting the Amazon, centering local communities and what it will take to keep the ...

By Manuela Andreoni and Ana Mano SAO PAULO, Jan 14 (Reuters) - Environmental groups are skeptical about whether grain traders ...

Police and prosecutors from Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana and Suriname have arrested nearly 200 people in their first-ever ...

Authorities from Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, and Suriname conducted a first-ever joint operation targeting illegal gold mining in the Amazon. Supported by Interpol and other organizations, the ...

Look down at the rainforest floor. Rotting flowers shift under the assault of tiny petal-eating beetles. Vividly colored ...

Divina Viana is checking her boat as it’s about to take foreign tourists along the Rio Negro, or Black River, in the Brazilian Amazon. This is her home. “I was born and raised in the Amazon, in the ...

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

By Ana Mano, Manuela Andreoni and Andre Romani SAO PAULO, Jan 5 (Reuters) - A lobby group for Brazilian grain trading and crushing firms has told farming state Mato Grosso that it and many of its ...

The withdrawal of leading traders has left Amazon even more vulnerable to rampant deforestation and climate crisis.