NOVA CANAA DO NORTE, Brazil — Walking on a dusty field of cut rice that was once rainforest, researcher Flavio Wruck explains how farming, the Amazon's biggest killer, can be turned into its ...

Encouraging more intensive farming in areas of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest that have already been felled could help preserve the rest of the rainforest, by boosting crop yields without serious ...

To the editor: The fires in the Amazon rainforest are wantonly destroying ... s leached soils are among the poorest in the world for farming. It is the tree cover that helps maintain the cycle ...

When I was in college, a sustainability professor had us read a paper proposing an alternative to tradition farming practices ... Every Mechanic Gave Up On Tomatoes Become One of the First ...

Studies show the 2.2 million-square mile rainforest in the Amazon is nearing a tipping ... a lot of fire hotspots clustered around roads, agriculture and pasture areas that have already been ...

Whether they manage the land or not, women are more willing to integrate nature into livestock farming ... production potential in the Colombian Amazon through paddock division and gender ...

Deforestation of the Amazon rainforest ... and commercial farming in order to make a living. At the same time, indigenous communities living in the Amazon fight to protect the rainforest and ...

Yet progress in making farming practices more efficient and sustainable risks being undermined by the destruction of the Amazon rainforest. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s victory in last month’s ...

Brazil’s Amazon ... rainforest, he has simultaneously slashed funding to government-run environmental protection and monitoring programs, and pushed to open indigenous lands to commercial ...