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 ...

People in scores of rainforest nations could be paid to preserve forest areas under a concept announced by the Brazilian ...

And a whopping 29% of the Brazilian Amazon is “undesignated”, meaning it is public land but no one has decided whether it should be a nature reserve, an indigenous reserve, or something else.

At last year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference, Brazil’s then president-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won cheers ...

The Amazon rainforest is often portrayed as a giant carbon sink for the world, soaking up emissions generated elsewhere. So ...

However, it's unclear if the plan will get off the ground ... Figures from Brazil show a 22% reduction in Amazon deforestation this year under the Lula administration. Brazil is home to 60% ...

Brazil's national development bank (BNDES) on Saturday launched an effort to restore degraded or destroyed woodland amounting ...

Analysts credit most of the decline to stronger environmental law enforcement in Brazil - home to the majority of the forest - under President Luiz Inacio Lula ... Amazon - pledged to stop ...

Destruction across the Amazon rainforest so far this year has slowed dramatically, down 55.8% from the same period a year ago ...

A new study showing a 22.3% drop in the deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon ... Lula's political decision of zero deforestation; behind this, there is the political decision that the plan ...

In 2021, more than 100 countries – including many from the Amazon – pledged to stop deforestation globally ... Brazil’s Lula has led a push among its Amazonian neighbors and other rainforest ...