Women near Colombia’s Amazon Rainforest highly value trees on their small livestock farms. Better integration of what motivates farmers to conserve the environment could improve the odds for ...

Discover how bioeconomy practices, biodiversity preservation and carbon accounting are enhancing Amazon rainforest ...

Brazilian farmers want to end a ban on planting soya on cleared land, which critics say would spur deforestation.

Anticipation is rising that the agricultural method, involving nurturing a forest to grow crops there, can help the ...

A planned $2.5 billion potash mine in the rainforest is billed as key to Brazil’s expanding agricultural exports and to the economic security of the indigenous population.

After four decades of research, a scientist returns to the Amazon in an effort to change the behavior that has lead to years of environmental crisis.

In Brazil’s Maranhão state, the advance of monoculture and decades of forest destruction have driven a shift in precipitation patterns, diminishing rains and drying out springs that feed important ...

Gregg Brandalise was inspired to tell the story of how Dorothy Stang, a Catholic nun, fought for 40 years to save the Amazon rainforest and its people after watching the documentary, “Cowspiracy.” The ...

In Brazil’s state of Mato Grosso, monoculture has replaced large swathes of the Amazon rainforest and ushered in changes in climate patterns, including severe droughts and scarce rains, according to ...

Researchers have conducted the world’s biggest ever bird survey, recording 971 different species living in forests and cattle pastures across the South American country of Colombia. This represents ...

An agricultural method in the Amazon rainforest region spread by Japanese immigrants in northern Brazil has attracted attention as a way of preventing global warming. Teeming with rich biodiversity, t ...