Açaí is everywhere, but Brazil hopes more of its fruits rich in antioxidants and fibre will soon be enjoyed around the world.

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 ...

Dr. Magali Nehemy stood on the banks of the Tapajós River in the Amazon rainforest when the community's chief—a man in his ...

Deforestation is ravaging the Amazon. Illegal loggers are destroying wide tracts of forest and massive agricultural ...

Record-Breaking Carbon Emissions Transform the Amazon from Guardian to Threat The Amazon rainforest experienced its most ...

As pastures and thirsty crops dry up the Amazon, Indigenous people try to adapt traditional farming methods. The deep timbre ...

The question now is simple: what next? The summit ended with progress – but not enough. UN Secretary-General António Guterres’s opening plea for a “decade of acceleration and delivery” still hangs in ...

Stretching across 2.6 million square miles and eight countries and filled with more than 3 million species of plants and animals, the Amazon rainforest is a wild and wonderful place. There are ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover global and domestic health care and conservation. Tracy and I on our hike through the rainforest (Tapajós National Forest ...

Brazilian farmers want to end a ban on planting soya on cleared land, which critics say would spur deforestation.

BOGOTA, Colombia — 2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rain forest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that’s a critical counterweight to climate change. A ...

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 ...