Brazilian farmers want to end a ban on planting soya on cleared land, which critics say would spur deforestation.

BRASILIA (Reuters) -Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rose in July, breaking a 15-month streak of falling destruction under President Luiz Inacio da Silva, preliminary government data showed on ...

At COP, Brazil is presenting itself as an Amazon defender. But a key measure to slow deforestation is in grave peril.

By Rhett Ayers Butler As the world’s attention turns toward COP30 in Belém next month, the story of Brazil’s Amazon is shifting—though not quite in a straightforward way. According to the government’s ...

MANAUS, Brazil -- Joe Biden witnessed the devastation of drought up close as the first sitting American president to visit the Amazon rainforest Sunday, declaring that nobody can reverse "the clean ...

July 15 (UPI) --The Amazon rainforest -- considered one of the world's most important climate regulators -- continues to face serious threats in 2025. New data show that pressure on the ecosystem has ...

The Amazon region is a global hotspot of biodiversity and plays a key role in the climate system because of its ability to store large amounts of carbon and its influence on the global water cycle.

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon forests has flipped from a decreasing to an increasing trend, according to new annual figures released yesterday by the country's space agency INPE. Brazil's ...

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has continued on a downward trajectory despite a sharp increase in fires associated with the severe drought in the region. According to data published by Brazil’s ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Region will struggle to maintain progress on deforestation. Deforestation rates in ...

Rates of deforestation decreased significantly during the last year in Colombia and Brazil, two Amazonian nations that have historically been among the 10 countries with the highest forest loss in the ...

Twenty-five deforestation hotspots in the Amazon compromise the ecosystem services provided by the biome to local people, the South American countries and the world Deforestation and forest ...