Brazil is constructing a massive highway through the heart of the Amazon rainforest—right before a global COP30 climate ...

The Brazilian government, through the environmental regulator IBAMA, has granted Petrobras a license for exploratory oil drilling near the mouth of the Amazon River. Despite environmental and ...

A new EDF report finds over 10 million people in Brazil’s Amazon cities breathe unsafe air, causing 3,000 premature deaths ...

Deforestation in Brazil worsens under Lula despite green pledgesFires and drought devastate Amazon, erasing climate ...

Violence erupted yesterday in Rio de Janeiro after Brazilian police launched a raid against the notorious Comando Vermelho ...

The projected 10% cut is far short of the 60% emissions drop needed by 2035 to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius ...

Rio has been the scene of lethal police raids for decades. In March 2005, some 29 people were killed in Rio’s Baixada ...

The Brazilian government heard over 4,000 recommendations on what the country’s infrastructure should look like over the next ...

2024 may have been Earth's hottest year in at least 125,000 years, according to a grim climate report published Wednesday (Oct. 29) that describes our world as "on the brink" and warns its "vital ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A police raid and ensuing clashes with a drug gang in Rio de Janeiro left at least 119 people dead, ...

Israel mounted a deadly response to the killing of an IDF reservist in an area of Gaza designated as being an Israeli zone ...

The Netherlands held a general election two years before the next one was supposed to take place after politician Geert ...