Scientists discovered microbes in Amazon peatlands that control carbon storage. If peatlands stay stable, they store carbon.

Complex organisms, thousands of times smaller than a grain of sand, can shape massive ecosystems and influence the fate of ...

According to the Brazilian Federal Police, Bruno Heller is one of Amazon's largest deforesters and relied on legal and ...

Rodrigo Agostinho, head of IBAMA, Brazil's federal environmental agency, for two years now, spoke with Mongabay about the ...

“It was never a promise that JBS was going to make this happen,” Weller said about the net-zero emissions pledge. He also ...

A carbon markets investor backed by Swiss-trading house Mercuria said on Wednesday it had joined with two non-profits to ...

Wildfires in Brazil last year consumed a total area larger than all of Italy, a monitor reported Wednesday, as the country ...

And those fires contributed to deforestation, with authorities suspecting some fires were set to more easily clear land to run cattle. The Amazon is twice the size of India and sprawls across ...

Carbon markets investor Silvania, backed by Swiss-trading house Mercuria and two non-profits, announced a $1.5 billion fund ...

Researchers from the German Max Planck Institutes of Geoanthropology and Biology Tübingen use genomic data to study the ...

Jake Spring joined The Washington Post climate desk in 2025. Previously, he worked as a Reuters correspondent in Brazil and China, served as editor of China Economic Review and covered business for ...