It's harvest time in the heart of Brazil. Top-of-the-line John Deere tractors carve up vast soybean fields, sucking in dry pods and leaving a trail of dust.
Brazilian ranchers forced to replant after deforestation turn to seed collectors. CNN's Shasta Darlington reports.
Santino Sena wades through a knee-deep swamp, snatching up green seeds about the size of ping-pong balls that float on the surface of the water.
Brazil¹s Congress postponed a vote on Tuesday on a controversial forest code, which has pitted farmers and ranchers against environmentalists.
Brazil stands at a crossroads in its efforts to preserve the Amazon rainforest as the government considers controversial legislation governing land use.
Brazil's Senate passed a controversial forestry bill late Tuesday, supported by ranchers and farmers but opposed by many environmental activists.
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has decreased to the lowest level since record-keeping began in 1988, according to official estimates.
VICE visits the hometown of two environmental activists who were murdered in May outside their home in the Amazon.
On the morning of May 24 of this year, two gunmen ambushed and murdered Amazon activist José "Zé" Cláudio Ribeiro da Silva and his wife, Maria do Espírito Santo da Silva in the Brazilian state of Pará. The couple's involvement in environmentalism began with the creation of the Alta Piranheira Beach settlement in 1997. This settlement, where fruit gathering is the only form of production permitted, is part of a program of agrarian reform designated for poor families who depend on the land for survival.
I'm often asked who has been an inspiration in my life and my career. The answer I've always given is Wangari Maathai.
Brazil's Catholic Church is the latest to publicly oppose a controversial revamping of the country's "Forest Code," which activists say would cause an environmental disaster.
Anne Hallum is helping rural Guatemalans protect their villages from deadly mudslides.
In rural Guatemala, all it takes is a few minutes for tons of heavy mud to plow into a vulnerable hillside community and swallow its people and their homes.
In an effort to ramp up pressure for Peru to crack down on illegal loggers in its region of the Amazon, an indigenous rights organization has released what it says are photos of an uncontacted tribe in Brazil that is threatened by the logging across the border.
Forests covering an area almost the size of Russia could be restored around the world, according to a global partnership of scientists.
Indonesia has one of the fastest rates of deforestation in the world. CNN looks at the issues as a result of this.
Rainforest covers 60 percent of Indonesia, yet this developing country is among the world's highest carbon emitters.
CNN's Becky Anderson reports on the levels of deforestation in Brazil that are actually dropping.
Only when flying over the treetops of the Brazilian Amazon was I finally able to comprehend the scale of the forest.
A new picture index is helping scientists monitor long-term trends in rare animal species around the world using strategically placed remote cameras.
British explorer Ed Stafford arrives home to Leicestershire, England, on Wednesday, two days after he completed a two-year, 4,000-mile trek along the Amazon River.
Scientist Hanta Rasamimanana takes CNN into the Madagascan jungle to observe lemurs in their natural habitat.
Thirty years ago, a young Hanta Rasamimanana was dispatched by the Madagascan government to spy on a delegation of American scientists in the country's Berenti reserve.
One of the world's largest pulp and paper companies is destroying Indonesia's rainforests and taking away the habitat of rare animals, environmental group Greenpeace charged Tuesday.
Indonesia's president on Wednesday announced a two-year moratorium on new concessions to convert virgin forests and peat lands into plantations, part of an internationally backed strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation.
Greenpeace Executive Director Kumi Naidoo talks about his organization's successful campaign to stop deforestation.
Greenpeace is well-known for taking direct action in the name of saving the environment, but key to its campaigning now is the collective power of the Internet and social media, says Greenpeace's executive director, Kumi Naidoo.
So few forests remain in the tiny country of Armenia that the World Bank has warned it could one day become a desert.
The U.N.'s forest carbon scheme which has formed part of the negotiations at the climate talks in Copenhagen has been one of the few areas where countries are broadly in agreement.
The REDD plan
updated: Fri Dec 18 2009 22:42:00
CNN correspondents explain why a plan to cut deforestation has its critics.
The U.N. climate summit is struggling with problems both inside and outside the Bella Center. CNN's Phil Black reports.
Bhola Prasad Bhattarai traveled from his native Nepal to Denmark to see how the "big people see the little people."
Thousands of protesters took to the streets and hundreds were detained Saturday in Copenhagen as they demanded a climate-change agreement that would curb greenhouse gas emissions and aid developing countries harmed by pollution.
Thousands march in Copenhagen to demand leaders take action against climate change. CNN's Phil Black reports.
Palm oil problemupdated: Fri Dec 11 2009 09:36:00
CNN's Arwa Damon goes to the Indonesian island of Sumatra to look at some of the problems of palm oil production.
As we drive through central Sumatra, what looks like a scene from some apocalyptic movie where an unknown force has obliterated all life on earth unfolds before us.
A series of photographic exhibitions have been organized in Europe and North America this autumn to highlight a campaign by Britain's Prince Charles to combat tropical deforestation.
If ever there were an industry in need of a general, it's the ethanol industry. Already under siege from food companies blaming biofuels for rising grocery prices, ethanol companies are now seeing their profit margins crushed by falling prices for their product. Compounding the problem, many environmentalists -- who five minutes ago seemed to be in ethanol's corner -- have turned against the corn-based fuel.
The people of Indonesia's Java Island still follow wedding traditions passed down centuries ago by their ancestors.
Couples must plant trees to receive a wedding license in a small Javanese province in Indonesia. CNN's Arwa Damon reports
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