Goodhope Asia Holdings has issued a new sustainability policy, committing the palm oil giant to stop clearing forests and peatlands. The Singapore-based firm was already a member of the Roundtable on ...

BrasilAgro is allegedly responsible deforesting nearly 22,000 hectares (54,000 acres) of native vegetation in its farms in Brazil’s Cerrado region and was fined $1.1 million by Brazil’s ...

Brazil presents a key example. The country is home to the world's largest area of rainforest—some 1.2 million square miles, an area more than 16 times the size of Nebraska. The Amazon contains ...

Husker study: Brazil can grow more soybeans without deforesting Amazon Date: October 10, 2022 Source: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Summary: A new study describes agricultural intensification ...

SAO PAULO, Jan 17 (Reuters) - The Brazilian government believes that it is possible to increase the area planted with grains by 5% each harvest for several years without deforestation, said the ...

See All Key Ideas The cattle ranching industry in Brazil is deforesting one of the country’s largest ecosystems without proper authorization, often with the financial backing of major ...

Developing countries around the globe face a challenge that pits economic growth against environmental protection. As they expand their agricultural production, they often convert forest into ...

The annual deforesting rate in the Amazon is growing again. In comparison with the figures of 2014, there was a 24% increase in deforesting in the area. The data were disclosed last week by Brazil ...

Gayathri D Naik receives funding from Commonwealth Scholarship Commission for her doctoral research on groundwater law and policy in India. Floods are now an annual nightmare in many parts of ...

Alberto Kalach is a Mexican architect whose career has focused on creating site-specific works that blend into the natural environment. In his most recent exhibition in Mexico City, Territories ...

In the state of Mato Grosso, some of the country’s largest meatpackers are clearing parts of the Cerrado at an even faster rate than the Amazon Rainforest, a new report from U.K.-based NGO Global ...