In May 2024, floodwaters submerged much of Porto Alegre. Brazil’s fourth-largest city lost bridges, hospitals, and months of economic output. Hundreds died. The images briefly commanded global ...

BELEM, Brazil (Reuters) -Brazilian Environment Minister Marina Silva fought back tears as global diplomats applauded her for several minutes on Saturday in the closing plenary of the COP30 global ...

By Marcelo Teixeira, Oliver Griffin and May Angel SAO PAULO, March 12 (Reuters) - Cocoa farmers in Brazil have slammed the ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, June 14 (Reuters) - Staff at Brazil's environment agency voted to strike in at least 14 states, their union said on Friday, threatening delays to oil and gas licenses, auto imports and ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — For nearly 20 years, Brazil’s largest soy producers assured buyers that their harvest — the world’s biggest — wasn't grown on land cleared from Amazonian forests. The pledge, known as ...

World leaders and delegates are meeting in the northern Brazilian city of Belém for COP30, this year’s major UN climate summit. This is the first time the global climate meeting has been held in the ...

LONDON (AP) — Victims of Brazil’s worst environmental disaster took their case for compensation to a UK court Monday, almost nine years after tons of toxic mining waste poured into a major waterway, ...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Brazilian environment agency Ibama has notified 12 meatpacking plants, including two operated by JBS SA, of an inspection into their alleged involvement in a scheme to buy cattle ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Wednesday condemned Brazil’s Congress for advancing the General Environmental Licensing Bill and called on lawmakers to support negotiations at COP30 and ratify the Escazú ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LONDON (AP) — Victims of Brazil’s worst ...