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 ...

By the end of next year, the state of Para is requiring all cattle to be tagged to trace where they came from in order to be ...

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 ...

Following a campaign by environmentalists for greater transparency into the origins of beef, the government of leftwing President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva — which has overseen a significant drop in ...

Gilberto Tomazoni, global CEO of meat multinational JBS, recently advocated support for rural producers, as a way to scale up ...

As a deforestation front sweeps across the Brazilian Amazon, a cultural phenomenon linked to cattle ranching is emerging in its wake: North American-style rodeos. More commonly seen in the rural ...

CHICAGO, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Brazil needs a mandatory government program to track cattle being raised for beef to prevent deforestation, the head of the world's largest meat company, Brazil's JBS SA ...

Valued at over $4 million, the Brazilian Nelore cow dominates Brazil’s lucrative beef industry. A female calf enters an auction during the ExpoZebu Cattle Fair. This cow, a prestigious Nelore breed, ...

The hoary fox is the only canine endemic to both the Cerrado biome and Brazil; it’s now trying to survive among cattle pastures and soy plantations. Other threats resulting from human contact include ...

NOVA XAVANTINA, Brazil, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Farmers like Endrigo Dalcin are so keen to plant Brazil's biggest-ever soybean crop that they are tearing down the fences around once-sacred territory: ...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Federal police ordered some 200 Terena Indians to leave a former congressman's ranch in south-central Brazil on Thursday in the latest flashpoint of a widening conflict over land ...