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.

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

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 ...

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.

Will the Amazon’s climate return to normal ... These tactics allow land grabbers to clear vast tracts of rainforest for ...

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.

Pulitzer Center/Rainforest ... the destruction of the Amazon rainforest. Chavkin’s in-depth reporting for the story has already had impact, prompting the company to join industry working groups on ...

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 ...

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 ...

Deforestation is when trees are removed or cut down. Widespread deforestation has taken place in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. Education allows the population to become more skilled and ...