By Rhett Ayers Butler Environmental crimes rarely occur in isolation. A road cut into a forest may appear first as a faint ...

Major soy traders operating in Brazil announced in early January that they would abandon one ofthe world’s most successful zero-deforestation agreements, known as the soy moratorium. As a result, ...

Brazilian Amazon states are leading an offensive against environmental regulations in the Amazon and beyond. The movement gained momentum in October when Brazil’s granary, Mato Grosso state, approved ...

In 2025, environmental crimes spread into corners of the Amazon Basin that had so far largely escaped the rampant plunder of the forest and its inhabitants by criminal networks and regional elites ...

In Brazil’s Amazon, people are trapped in a vicious cycle in which deforestation begets poverty, and poverty begets deforestation. Already, more than a fifth of the country’s rainforest has vanished.

2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that’s a critical counterweight to climate change. A warming climate fed ...

In a recent survey of 800 Amazon corporate employees, significant concerns have emerged regarding the company’s leadership and its environmental practices. The survey, which included both virtual ...

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Dozens of environmental nonprofits issued a manifesto Thursday condemning new laws in Brazilian states that threaten to dismantle the Amazon soy moratorium — a landmark ...

On Wednesday, Amazon claimed that it reached its goal of sourcing all its power from clean energy sources in the past year. If taken at face value, the announcement would mean it hit the milestone ...