Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has announced a plan to halt illegal deforestation in the Amazon by 2028 and ...

Under pressure from the EU to rein in deforestation or face trade restrictions, Amazon countries must figure out how to bring prosperity to the region without destroying the forest. And that’s proving ...

The battle to save the Amazon is a balancing act. Ugly compromises are inevitable. If Lula pushes too hard, he may provoke a backlash and lose the next election to a logger-hugging opponent. But if he ...

In early June, Brazil’s federal government relaunched the Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Deforestation in the Legal Amazon (PPCDAM) with the goal of achieving zero deforestation in the ...

Germany, Norway and the United Kingdom are supporting a plan from the Colombian government, working with local communities to contain deforestation in the Colombian Amazon, it was announced at the ...

Illegal logging and deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest decreased by 22.3% between August 2022 and July 2023. The government said in a statement that this marked the smallest area ...

Tree loss was down 20 percent from the previous year, the environment minister announced. By Manuela Andreoni Reporting from Rio de Janeiro. Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil fell ...

It is unclear if the plan will get off the ground.Brazil proposed a new global fund to pay countries to keep their tropical ...

As incomes in China have grown in the last decade, so has China’s appetite for beef. No longer out of reach for China’s middle class, beef now sizzles in home woks and restaurant kitchens.