Stopping deforestation before it reaches a doom loop will require delicate international and domestic negotiation.

Wesley and Joesley Batista run a business empire linked to rampant emissions, deforestation, worker abuses, Covid crises, bribery, price-fixing, SEC violations, and tainted meat. It’s almost impressive.

Lula da Silva’s administration is in crisis over how to balance economic development with environmental priorities.

The imprisoned environmental lawyer is asking the Supreme Court to intervene in a case that may have broad implications for the separation of powers.

The murders of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira highlight the vast gulf between Bolsonaro’s lawless and exploitative approach to the rain forest and his opponent’s proposed reforms.

It’s out of fashion in the United States. But activists from India to Ecuador show how feminist environmentalism could be used to build solidarity in the face of the climate crisis.

Many consider capitalist solutions to conservation to be démodé. But done right, they could spark the wealth transfer needed to save the world’s largest rain forest.

In theory, wealthy nations should pay to stop deforestation in Brazil. But Bolsonaro can’t be trusted to keep his end of the deal.

According to a new study, the Amazon is no longer acting as a net carbon sink.

Lethal new diseases are springing up at alarming rates, and modern globalized capitalism is behind it.

The coronavirus isn’t a reason to put climate policy on hold. It’s a warning of the calamities ahead.

A dispatch from Pope Francis’s efforts to combat climate change—and to give a diminished Church a new indigenous face

Raise the stakes for Brazil’s president—and work with the nation's people, not against them.

Aggressive reforestation will be required to stem climate change—and that includes the United States.

Supporting indigenous people's projects could be more effective than trying to persuade the openly dismissive Brazilian government.

In Brazil, a struggle over the future of the Amazon is taking place. The struggle will have global impact.

Pope Francis's latest amendment to Catholic doctrine connects to other policies he's promoted in the past.

The Rainforest Action Network says it very well might be.

For these women, environmentalism and women's rights are closely linked: Past drilling projects have resulted in increased assaults, cancer, and infertility.