By Shanna Hanbury Commodity-trading giant Cargill recently signaled that it will weaken its no-deforestation commitments in ...

Commodity-trading giant Cargill recently signaled that it will weaken its no-deforestation commitments in the Amazon Rainforest ... (EUDR): When it goes into effect at the end of 2025, the ...

Brazil plans new reserves to curb deforestation near contested Amazon roads ...

Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in northern Brazil soared 85% in 2019, compared with the previous year, official data showed Tuesday. The 9,166 square kilometers cleared was the highest ...

Thousands of fires are currently wreaking havoc in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil ... in the heat-trapping carbon dioxide and reduce the effects of global warming. Losing trees doesn’t just ...

Under President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who vowed to protect the Amazon during his 2022 campaign, deforestation in the Brazilian rainforest fell to its lowest level in almost a decade last year.

We’ve had our successes, but the challenges keep growing too. We helped reduce deforestation in the Amazon by 75% between 2004 and 2012. But since then deforestation has been on the increase, with the ...

A task force, organized by the Bipartisan Policy Center think tank, is hoping to improve credibility of voluntary carbon ...

The Brazilian Amazon witnessed a 7% annual drop in the amount of deforested land in 2024, even as the area affected by degradation increased multiple times over, according to a report published Friday ...