Fabiano Maisonnave
Brazilian beef and leather companies fall short in tackling deforestation, a study finds
Brazil's beef industry fuels Amazon deforestation, with 80 per cent of top companies failing to stop rainforest destruction.
Belem, host of next year’s climate talks, is Amazonian city plagued with pollution and violence
COP30 in Belem will test global climate goals amid Amazon deforestation, urban inequalities, and Lula's environmental commitments.
Severe droughts threaten the sustainable catch of the Amazon’s giant fish
Record-breaking drought threatens Brazil's Amazon pirarucu fishery, cutting catch and raising costs.
Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon drops by nearly 31% compared to previous year
Forest loss in Brazil’s Amazon dropped by 30.6 per cent compared to the previous year, officials said Wednesday.
Brazilian state law overturns soy moratorium that helped curb Amazon deforestation
Mato Grosso ends incentives for the Soy Moratorium, challenging a key deforestation curb in Brazil’s Amazon since 2006.
Criminals may be leveraging climate change as record acreage burns in Brazil’s Amazon
A surge in fires in the Amazon may be the result of lawbreakers starting fires to create more land for pastures.
Judge in Brazil orders slaughterhouses to pay for Amazon reforestation
A Brazilian judge found two slaughterhouses guilty of buying cattle from protected Amazon land, ordering compensation for damages.
Amazon rainforest stores carbon for the world, but this carbon sink is at risk: study
The Amazon rainforest stores nearly two years' worth of global carbon emissions, but deforestation threatens to turn it from a carbon sink into...
Severe drought has returned to the Amazon earlier than expected
The Amazon is beginning the dry season, with many rivers already at critical levels, prompting governments to anticipate contingency measures.
Wind power meets grassroots resistance in Brazil’s Northeast
In the poorest parts of Brazil, wind farms can bring both opportunity and misery to communities descended from fugitive slaves.
