Despite serving as crucial guardians of biodiversity, traditional communities continue to be systematically excluded from ...

The landslide that buried most of a Swiss village this week is focusing renewed attention on the role of global warming in ...

In a pristine corner of the Amazon, Brazilian and British scientists have spent more than two decades simulating drought to understand how the rainforest might respond to a drier future.

This is Agritopia, an 11-acre organic farm that’s all that remains after miles of alfalfa, corn, cotton, durum wheat and ...

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 ...

fought for 40 years to save the Amazon rainforest and its people after watching the documentary, “Cowspiracy.” The film detailed how the animal agriculture business, particularly the beef ...

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — The Amazon rainforest stores the equivalent of ... And cleared land often is used for farming and livestock grazing that produce greenhouse gases. David Lapola, a ...

SAO PAULO, Aug 1 (Reuters) - The number of fires in Brazil's Amazon rainforest region surged ... destroy forests or other native vegetation for agriculture or other alternative use, with limited ...

Deforestation is the cutting down of trees for use as building wood and/or to use the land cleared for farming ... Lula had promised to restore the Amazon rainforest when he was trying to get ...

Archaeologists working deep in the Amazon rainforest have discovered an extensive ... this latest study mirror the advanced techniques in agriculture and urban planning that he observed in ...

The ground reveals one of the paradoxes of the rainforest ... The scale of abandoned farm and pastureland across the Brazilian Amazon is massive — covering an area larger than Portugal ...

It’s a patchwork of farmland, filled with emerald-green corn stalks and newly clear-cut plots where the rainforest ... when most of the farming in this part of the Amazon was practised by ...