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Last year, the Amazon saw some of the highest rates of deforestation in over a decade, due to a combination of cattle ranching, agriculture, mining and road projects that cleared millions of acres of rainforest. An estimated 1.98 million hectares (4.89 million acres) of forest were cleared in 2022, a 21% increase from 2021 and […]

A recent agreement will allow the Brazilian state of Tocantins to sell carbon credits to Swiss oil-trading company Mercuria.

In the transition zone between the eastern Amazon and the Cerrado, an interaction between climate change and agricultural expansion may be resulting in increased temperature and reduced rainfall. This is one of the main conclusions of a study conducted by Brazilian and foreign researchers. This transition zone, known as Matopiba since it encompasses parts of […]

In the transition zone between the eastern Amazon and the Cerrado, an interaction between climate change and agricultural expansion may be resulting in

Variety reports that Olivia Colman, Antonio Banderas, Rachel Zegler, and Emily Mortimer are all in talks to join Paddington for his next amusing adventure, Paddington in Peru, the third installment in the heartwarming series.

At a hearing Thursday, the Senate Finance Committee discussed the impact of Brazilian beef production in the Amazon on the environment.In an opening statement, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said, the “Finance Committee...

With his golden snout and his pointy ears, Wilson became a national hero in Colombia when he helped the military find four Indigenous children who survived a plane crash and were lost in the Amazon jungle for 40 days. Pawprints from the military-trained search dog led trackers to the children, but the Belgian Shepherd went missing during the search and is now himself the target of a sophisticated rescue operation that started soon after the four young survivors where flown on a helicopter to Bog...

Spencer Matthews has admitted that prior to this weeks events, he wouldnt think twice about taking a submarine trip to the wreck of the Titanic.

Discussions of valuable but threatened ocean ecosystems often focus on coral reefs or coastal mangrove forests. Seagrass meadows get a lot less attention, even though they provide wide-ranging services to society and store lots of climate-warming carbon.

Just ten years ago, livestock farming dominated this terrain, but an environmental vision led the Zapatas to alter their path dramatically.