As Brazil prepares to host COP30, construction of a controversial highway through the Amazon rainforest has sparked criticism ...

New research spotlights the challenge of growing food on a warming planet. Two recent studies — one historical and the other ...

Brazilian soy farmers are pushing further into the Amazon rainforest to plant more of their crops, putting pressure on a landmark deal signed two decades ago aimed at slowing deforestation.

Global climate efforts have focused on decarbonizing energy, transport and industry. But agriculture remains a critical, ...

A climate tipping point is a critical threshold where a small environmental change can lead to dramatic and often ...

The Moratorium, like many conservation policies around the world, protects old-growth rainforests, but not regrown ones. In ...

Illegal cattle ranches clearing the Amazon rainforest are behind the leather in high-end handbags made by top European and ...

Brazilian soy farmers are pushing further into the Amazon rainforest to plant more of their crops, putting pressure on a ...

New research shows climate change may be overloading the Amazon's tree canopy, disrupting photosynthesis and signaling forest ...

In fact, deforestation, fire, and climate change already work synergistically in the Amazon. In recent years, climate change has sparked droughts that let wildfires burn bigger and longer.

Climate change and slavery form a vicious cycle. Collective action for a free and livable future is an opportunity to combat both at once.

Latin America's top human rights court has issued a groundbreaking advisory opinion linking states' human rights obligations ...