Brazilian Legal Amazonia (BLA)—which comprises the entirety of the Amazon Basin located in Brazil and vast adjacent swathes ...

As CNBC reports, in April of 2024, cocoa prices peaked at a cost of $11,000 per metric ton, up from roughly $2,500 in ...

Damage to the natural world isn’t factored into the price of food. But some governments are experimenting with a new way of ...

Much of Brazil is burning as tens of thousands of fires rage around the country, half of them in the Amazon rainforest. Exacerbated by a severe drought, the fires threaten one of the world’s most ...

A Brazilian judge has fined slaughterhouses and cattle ranchers for causing environmental damage via illegal Amazon ...

Researchers from iDiv, Leipzig University and Sun Yat-sen University in China have found that large-scale deforestation has a ...

In a letter sent on Thursday Mauro Vieira and Carlos Fávaro, Brazil’s foreign affairs and agriculture ministers respectively, ...

The wake-up call came a few years ago, seeing a picture of myself bowling in a cricket tournament in Thailand and wondering ...

The European Union (EU) finally approved a regulation prohibiting the entry of agricultural items, including coffee, soy, and beef, produced after 2020 in deforested areas, regardless of whether ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Coffee-producing nations could find their exports blocked from the EU market unless Brussels delays a ban ...

Almost a quarter of this area (23%) has been deforested, and over 1 million km2 are degraded, so that the region risks reaching an ecological tipping point at which ecosystems collapse and ...