José Marcolini, a farmer here, has a permit from the Brazilian government to raze 12,500 acres of rain forest this year to create highly profitable new soy...

Brazilian authorities investigating illegal deforestation have accused the suppliers of several UK supermarkets of selling meat linked to massive destruction of the...

Luis Carlos da Silva is helping construct a 10-foot cinder-block wall around Dona Marta, the slum he calls home. He is paid $90 a week by a contractor hired by the...

Cutting down Amazon forest for cattle and soy does not bring long-term economic progress, researchers say. A study of 286 Amazon municipalities found that...

Roads pierce the last green heartland of the Amazonian rain forests to make it more accessible even as greedy land grabbers kill the trees at an unprecedented scale....