This year's United Nations climate conference in November is in Belem, Brazil, a city facing high poverty and infrastructure ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday called upon Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to veto recently approved ...

A new and alarming pattern of destruction is emerging in the rainforest, challenging Brazilian authorities ahead of COP30.

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva should veto a bill that dismantles environmental licensing and poses serious ...

By André Schröder Brazil is a country shaped by highways. The transportation model adopted by President Juscelino Kubitschek in the 1950s has been expanded by successive administrations across ...

The threats and intimidation come in many forms: anonymous phone calls warning a human rights defender that he should leave ...

A ceramic pot and the shell of a turtle, once hunted for its meat, are the most recent traces of an Indigenous community ...

The Amazon rainforest -- considered one of the world's most important climate regulators - continues to face serious threats ...

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was ordered by his country's supreme court to wear an ankle monitor. He has been ...