Analysis-Brazil Environment Minister, Climate Summit Star, Faces Political Struggle at Home By Manuela Andreoni BELEM, Brazil (Reuters) -Brazilian Environment Minister Marina Silva fought back tears ...

A new report by the Amazon Environmental Research Institute has found that gold mining poses a significant threat to ...

As in the United States, Brazil's public life has become deeply polarized along political and religious divides, with many evangelical Christians aligning with conservatives opposing progressive ...

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 ...

BELÉM, Brazil — Brazil intended this year’s United Nations climate talks now underway in the Amazon rainforest, to be the capstone of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s effort to establish the ...

Brazil's Ibama environmental regulator authorized Petrobras to drill three more wells in the Foz do Amazonas Basin in the ...

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest slowed by nearly half compared to the year before, according to government satellite data released Wednesday. It's the largest ...

SAO PAULO — Brazil's Environment Minister Marina Silva, a globally recognized climate leader, said she was stepping down Wednesday from her role in President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s administration ...

The international scientific community is “deeply concerned” about Brazil’s environmental policy under President Michel Temer, the head of the Society for Ecological Restoration said Friday. “We have ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - The sun sets at dusk over the headquarters of the National Congress in Brasilia, Brazil, March 31, 2022. (AP Photo/Eraldo ...

(São Paulo) - Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva should veto a bill that dismantles environmental licensing and poses serious threats to environment-related human rights across the country, ...

Brazil’s environment ministry said Wednesday that far-right President-elect Jair Bolsonaro’s plan to merge it with the agriculture ministry is “reckless” and will undermine not only environmental ...