In his first public statement after winning the election on October 30, 2022, Lula, as he is known in Brazil, pledged to reduce deforestation in the Amazon rainforest to zero, defend Indigenous ...

By Lucas Berti Brazil’s environmental agenda is tasting bittersweet in 2025. While the country’s northern capital city of ...

Environmental fines are not a particularly useful deterrent for criminal groups and landowners engaging in illegal deforestation in Brazil. Evidence from previous governments since 2000 shows that ...

Coronavirus and deforestation rip through Brazil’s people and the world’s lungs By Bill Weir , CNN Chief Climate Correspondent 5 minute read ...

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest fell 30% in February from a year earlier, government data showed on Friday, as President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's government worked toward a pledge ...

In Brazil, Lula vows to halt deforestation — but it won’t be easy The president-elect faces deep political division, and Bolsonaro still has two more months in power ...

NPR's Ayesha Rasco talks to journalist Gustavo Faleiros about the deforestation of the Amazon and how the results of Brazil's presidential election could affect it.

Brazil could produce 10-20% more climate-warming gases in 2020 due to deforestation and farming as compared to the most recent data from 2018, a new study said on Thursday, while emissions ...

With 10,800 square kilometers having been clear cut last year, it also doesn’t bring Brazil remotely close to meeting its climate commitment of reducing deforestation in the Amazon to 3,925 ...

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon fell by at least 60 percent in July compared to the same month last year, the environment minister, Marina Silva, has told the Guardian.

Brazil's so-called soy moratorium pact, whereby trading companies voluntarily committed not to buy soy grown in deforested areas in the Amazon after 2008, has also been under threat.