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Brazilian Amazon deforestation fell 22.3 percent in the year through July, hitting a five-year low, officials said Thursday, as President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's government fights to curb destruction of the world's biggest rainforest.Satellite monitoring found 9,001 square kilometers (3,475 square miles) of forest cover was destroyed in the Brazilian Amazon from August 2022 to July 2023, according to national space agency INPE's annual deforestation tracking program, PRODES. I...

As incomes in China have grown in the last decade, so has China’s appetite for beef. No longer out of reach for China’s middle class, beef now sizzles in home woks and restaurant kitchens. China has become the world’s biggest importer of beef, and Brazil is China’s biggest supplier, according to United Nations Comtrade data.

Data analysis by The Associated Press and the Rainforest Investigations Network, a nonprofit reporting consortium, found that a little-known American meat trading company in Utah is feeding China’s growing appetite for Brazilian beef, a commodity that’s driving the deforestation of the Amazon. The world’s largest rainforest, the Amazon plays a critical role in the global climate by absorbing carbon emissions. As Chinese beef imports have surged sixfold in the last decade, ...

The find has been described as 'extremely worrying' by researchers who are investigating the find.

Previously submerged underwater, the faces in Brazil give a glimpse at ancient cultures. Amazon River water level. Amazon drought causes. Why is the Amazon drying up? Is the Amazon in a drought?

As an unprecedented forest summit opens in Africa, a global movement of indigenous activists is pushing to halt all industrial and oil exploration in the world’s principal forests — an expansion largely funded by the U.S. and other Western countries. Campaigners in countries from Peru to Indonesia argue oil exploration is a threat to the…

The petroglyphs are believed to be between 1,000 and 2,000 years old.

"River dolphins serve as an indicator of waterway health."

An extreme drought in parts of the Amazon has led to a dramatic drop in river water levels, exposing dozens of usually submerged rock formations with carvings of human forms that may date back some 2,000 years.The rock carvings are not usually visible because they are covered by the waters of the Negro River, whose flow recorded its lowest level in 121 years last week.

People thought she was crazy when Carminha Maria Missio and her family bought what was considered "sterile" land in the Brazilian savanna to farm soybeans, she says.Missio, a beaming grandmother named one of the most powerful women in agriculture by Forbes Brasil, remembers the surprised reactions when her poor southern family sold their land in 1979 and moved across the country to the "Cerrado," a huge savanna below the Amazon rainforest.