Jani Silva is a renowned environmental activist in Colombia’s Amazon, but she has been unable to live in her house for nearly ...

Record-Breaking Carbon Emissions Transform the Amazon from Guardian to Threat The Amazon rainforest experienced its most devastating fire season in over two decades during 2024. The 2024 fires ...

Afro-descendant peoples in Latin America have historically been guardians of nature, but their role could be more important than previously estimated. New research carried out in four Amazonian ...

The following is an English translation of a report originally published in Portuguese in Folha de S.Paulo. Leia em português ...

By the end of next year, the state of Para is requiring all cattle to be tagged to trace where they came from in order to be sold legally ...

Brazil’s “criminal economy” does not appear on any national balance sheet. Yet the cost of violence, contraband, tax evasion ...

While the best items are resold to international markets, overwhelming volumes of cheap fast-fashion pieces don’t make the ...

Imazon has developed AI deforestation prediction models that inform policies and help law enforcement protect the Amazon ...

Even Swedish consumption contributes to the loss of rainforest—and nowadays coffee has overtaken beef as the product affecting deforestation the most. This is shown in a new report from the WWF in ...

While delegates gathered for COP30 in Belém, Brazil, around 180 kilometres away, in Tomé-Açu, this truck transported wood from a deforested area of the Amazon. Deforestation was one of the items on ...

Who owns the rainforest—and who has the right to use it—might seem like a simple question. But in the Brazilian Amazon, that question lies at the heart of one of the world's most persistent ...