Environmental groups are skeptical about whether grain traders that supply livestock feed to global meat markets will keep ...

The wildcat gold mining boom that swept across the Amazon beginning in the 1970s left behind an environmental catastrophe of ...

Nearly 20 years ago, a Brazilian lobbying group for soy trading and processing companies signed onto a historic conservation ...

In a room at the back of her house, Vera Alves da Silva Oliveira keeps the air-conditioning on day and night to protect bags of seeds gathered by hand from Brazil’s Amazon rainforest and Cerrado ...

Environmental crime used to be treated as a niche concern, a worry for park rangers, customs officers and a handful of ...

Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon region has long been driven by illegal logging, land grabbing, and weak enforcement. But in ...

A lobby group for Brazilian grain trading and crushing firms has told farming state Mato Grosso that it and many of its ...

SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL — Abiove, which represents grain trading and crushing companies in Brazil, said many of its members plan to exit the soy moratorium agreement, which is intended to protect the Amazon ...

Throughout 2025, Latin America remained a battleground between efforts to conserve some of the world’s most valuable ecosystems and mounting pressure from organized crime and legal extractive ...

In 2025, environmental crimes spread into corners of the Amazon Basin that had previously mostly escaped the rampant plunder of other areas.

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