Brazil stumps up billions of dollars for its ambitious rainforest fund at UN climate summit

Brazil has unveiled long-awaited details about a plan to pay countries to preserve their tropical forests and announced it ...

Brazil's president calls for investigation after 121 killed in police operation against gang: "There was a massacre"

The raid against the Red Command drug trafficking gang saw thousands of officers battle heavily armed men who dropped ...

Save the Amazon or Drill for Oil? Brazil Says It Can Do Both.

Brazil, which is hosting the 30th U.N. Climate Change Conference this month, wants to show the world it is a leader in ...

On eve of UN climate talks in Brazil, a call for less talking and more doing

Host Brazil will preside and set the agenda. For the talks to be a success, world leaders need to beef up efforts and money ...

Brazil Is Developing a Weapon for Trade Wars: Fertilizer in the Amazon

A planned $2.5 billion potash mine in the rainforest is billed as key to Brazil’s expanding agricultural exports and to the ...

Prince William's Earthshot Prize awards 2025 winners in Brazil

The Earthshot Prize announced its five global winners for 2025 Thursday, which include rainforest reforestation, a global ...

Brazil's Lula puts forward new vision for protecting the Amazon rainforest

Brazil’s leader, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, says he wants the future of the Amazon rainforest to be built around a ...

Evers, Grisham fly to Brazil for climate change summit as government remains shut down

In the midst of the ongoing government shutdown, a number of Democrat governors, mayors and other officials are flying to ...