From Lucas do Rio Verde, a major agricultural hub in the state of Mato Grosso, the railway would be built from scratch, ...

With the first U.N. climate talks in the Amazon set for November, Brazil is fast-tracking a series of controversial decisions ...

Months before hosting the U.N.'s first climate talks held in the Amazon, Brazil is fast-tracking a series of controversial decisions that undercut President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s lofty ...

Most of Phillips’ research was done during the term of right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro, as Brazil’s Amazon deforestation reached a 15-year high in 2021.

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — After British journalist Dom Phillips was shot and killed while researching an ambitious book on how to protect the world’s largest rainforest, friends vowed to finish ...

MANAUS, Brazil -- Months before hosting the U.N.'s first climate talks held in the Amazon, Brazil is fast-tracking a series of controversial decisions that undercut President Luiz Inácio Lula da ...

The Amazon, an area almost twice the size of India, contains the world’s largest rainforest, about two-thirds of it within Brazil. It stores vast amounts of carbon dioxide, holds about 20% of ...

Most of Phillips’ research was done during the term of right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro, as Brazil’s Amazon deforestation reached a 15-year high in 2021.

Brazil's former president Jair Bolsonaro appeared in court in Brasilia on Monday, accused of plotting a coup to prevent the handover of power after he lost the country's 2022 election. A co ...

Brazil's ex-president Jair Bolsonaro speaking to the press after being indicted for January 8, 2023 coup attempt [Photo: Lula Marques/Agência Brasil]. The last few weeks have been marked by ...