Despite missed 2025 goals, top firms show ending deforestation is achievable—protecting forests, biodiversity, and corporate ...

By Shanna Hanbury The world’s largest buyers of Brazilian soy have announced a plan to exit from a landmark antideforestation ...

A new study has uncovered that forest loss is changing weather patterns in the world's three largest remaining tropical rainforests. The study, published in the journal Nature last month, found that ...

When a forest is lost to development, some effects are obvious. Stumps and mud puddles across the landscape, a plowed field or houses a year after that. But deforestation isn’t just a loss of trees; ...

The story of the world’s tropical forests in 2025 was not one of dramatic reversal, but one shaped by accumulated pressure.

This paper examines the impact of changes in agricultural land use on deforestation at the local level in the Tapajós Basin in the Brazilian Amazon. It uses exogenous variation in crop-to-beef ...

In 2008, the Brazilian government blacklisted municipalities in the Amazon to better target efforts to repress deforestation. Not only were law enforcement and monitoring activities intensified, but ...

SAO PAULO, June 7 (Reuters) - Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest fell almost 10% in May from the previous year, preliminary government data showed on Wednesday, as President Luiz Inacio Lula ...