Ranchers can earn an average $50 a year from raising cattle on a hectare of land in the Brazilian Amazon, according to government agricultural census data. It may not sound much, but for a farm ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report Wednesday highlighting the devastation caused by illegal cattle ranching in the Brazilian rainforest, and especially its impact on Indigenous peoples in the ...

We recently spoke to Brazilian environmental activist Angela Mendes, the daughter of Amazonian forest defender and labor ...

PARANAÍTA, Brazil — Cattle are a huge problem. They’re the No. 1 threat to biodiversity and the No. 2 threat (after fossil fuels) to the climate. Their burps, farts and poop are major sources of ...

Maria Gorete, who just began ranching three years ago, is doing something new with her 76 head of cattle in the Brazilian ...

STORY: Cattle ranchers in the Amazonian state of Para are looking to fix cattle ranching, one of the world’s biggest drivers of deforestation. Cattle have started being tagged with ear chips as part ...

Deforestation last year rose to the highest level since 2015 in Brazil’s Cerrado, prompting scientists on Monday to raise alarm over the state of the world’s most species-rich savanna, a major carbon ...

CHULA VISTA, Calif. (KGTV) — Popular South Bay brewery Novo Brazil is expanding its footprint in Chula Vista this month. Novo Brazil Brewery will hold a grand opening for its new brewpub on Dec. 11 in ...

Delta State Governor, Sheriff Oborevwori, has assured residents that his administration will replicate Brazil’s agricultural model, particularly in ranching, as part of efforts to boost food ...

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Matheus Sborgia, a Brazilian chef, decided to bet on regenerative agriculture after inheriting his grandfather’s cattle ranch in the heart of the Cerrado. Sborgia embraced the idea of holistic ...