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

(RNS) — Attacks from the religious right on Marina Silva, a Pentecostal and longtime environmentalist, expose the rifts within Brazil’s evangelical movement as the Amazon’s future hangs in ...

Brazil is a country filled with diverse landscapes, unique wildlife, and a rich cultural heritage, offering an endless array of travel possibilities. From the iconic Chapada Diamantina in Bahia to the ...

Such chauvinist language is nasty, and reflects the state of environmental discourse in Brazil today. Since Ms Silva’s last stint in office, Congress has become both more powerful and more beholden to ...

Researchers have yielded surprising results from the longest experiment ever done, in the Amazon rainforest, after 24 years.

The Chamber of Deputies has passed a piece of legislation easing regulations, allowing authorities to largely disregard the environmental impact of projects deemed strategic. On this issue ...

Whoever does not control their energy has no homeland. They have territory.” The energy world and the new colonialism Energy is not just electricity, nor ...

Dust from the Sahara Desert, once a massive lake, travels across the Atlantic Ocean. This dust, rich in potassium and iron from dead diatoms, fertilizes the Amazon rainforest. The Amazon River ...