Mato Grosso

A dry brown patch of land is dotted with trees

A ‘Third Way’ to save the Amazon: make the standing forest itself more valuable

Brazil’s leading climatologist wants to change the way businesses view the Amazon. If standing trees become more valuable than cleared land, the forest can recover and continue to absorb greenhouse gases.

A billboard for soybeans in Mato Grosso, Brazil. The region is likely to make Brazil the world's top producer of soybeans, but the boom in production has come at the same time as a rise in deforestation.

Brazil is set to become the world’s biggest soy producer — and that might be bad news for its forests

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