In the Brazilian state of Para, deep in the Amazon, mile upon mile of deforested land flanks the dusty road. Pastureland ...

Among a raft of more conventional presidential campaign promises, Brazil's former leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva - who aims ...

The world’s biggest meat company, has been linked to bribery, labour abuse and mass deforestation. So what’s it doing at the Cop climate talks?

Brazil has more trees than any country except Russia—but when our huge forests make the news, it’s usually because of “deforestation.” My nation and its Amazon region are so incomprehensibly big that ...

PARANAÍTA, Brazil — Cattle are a huge problem. They’re the No. 1 threat to biodiversity and the No. 2 threat (after fossil fuels) to the climate. Their burps, farts and poop are major sources of ...

Decades of ranching in the Amazon have earned Roque Quagliato, Brazil's "King of Cattle," great wealth - and some trouble. His family's immense farms were accused of submitting workers to slavery-like ...

Pedro Jota Fernandes, a master’s student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, is emerging as a prominent scholar and ...

As Brazil prepares to host the UN’s climate conference next month, its coffee industry is under growing scrutiny for fuelling ...

The hoary fox is the only canine endemic to both the Cerrado biome and Brazil; it’s now trying to survive among cattle pastures and soy plantations. Other threats resulting from human contact include ...

Brazil is a custodian to two thirds of the Amazon, the world’s largest rainforest. The biome is home to millions of Brazilians, including hundreds of Indigenous peoples and traditional communities, ...