SAO PAULO — Brazil's banks will be required to verify official satellite deforestation data before approving rural credit ...

By Marcela Ayres, Lisandra Paraguassu and Manuela Andreoni BRASILIA/SAO PAULO, April 1 (Reuters) - After struggling for years ...

Forest loss, along with climate change, is changing the resilience of the Amazon Rainforest. By disrupting the movement of ...

Photographer Lalo de Almeida has been documenting the industrialisation taking place in the Amazon rainforest after the ...

Investments have funded the purchase of 2,000 vehicles for enforcement, technical training for more than 500 individuals, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The world’s largest meat company, JBS, has allegedly fuelled illegal deforestation, land grabs and human rights abuses in the ...

Deforestation in Brazil’s Legal Amazon drove roughly three-quarters of the region’s dry-season rainfall decline between 1985 ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia's government reported on Thursday a sharp overall rise in deforestation in the country's Amazon rainforest for last year, reversing much of the progress made during a ...

Officials in the U.S. Trade Representative’s office are raising concerns about whether Brazil is doing enough to prevent deforestation as they pursue a Section 301 investigation into the South ...

Deforestation is having a more devastating effect on the Amazon rainforest than earlier data suggested. While cutting down large swaths of trees destroys vital habitats, it also harms the region's ...

After struggling for years to track and punish deforestation across the world's largest rainforest, Brazil is recruiting new ...