There’s nothing new about the expansion of cattle ranching in the Amazon rainforest. What’s little known is how the real driver of this destruction is ‘cheap’ meat on our supermarket shelves.

Sadly, the Amazon rainforest is a rapidly disappearing ... Clearing the trees also creates areas for cattle ranching, soybean farming, and the construction of roads and houses.

They’re curious about us, and we’re curious about them.” That’s how Daniel Cangussu describes the recent interaction with a ...

Mongabay went to Pará state’s southwest and found examples of people struggling to keep sustainable initiatives in a region dominated by soy, cattle, gold and logging.

A federal court in Brazil ordered a rancher to pay more than $50 million for destroying part of the Amazon rainforest ... to establish pasture for raising cattle. Satellite images showed the ...

For roughly about 65 million years, the forests of the Amazonian were resilient to changes in the climate. But that is ...

Will the Amazon’s climate return to normal ... These tactics allow land grabbers to clear vast tracts of rainforest for cattle ranching or soy plantations, driving deforestation and often ...

Brazilian firm JBS, the world's biggest meat processing company, was again accused on Monday of “laundering” cattle from ranches blacklisted for destroying the Amazon rainforest. The charge ...

Extensive cattle ranching along with clearing land to sell timber or grow soy are driving deforestation in the Amazon rainforest.JBS and more than a dozen other major agriculture companies have ...