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 ...

Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest has fallen to its lowest level since records began in 1988, Brazil's government has announced. Annual loss between August 2025 to July 2026 stood at 3,335 square ...

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 ...

Brazil, the world’s fourth-largest democracy and home to about 60% of the Amazon rainforest, voted Sunday for president, Congress and governors. The presidential race remains undecided, with Sen.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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, ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — A bill to overhaul environmental regulations in Brazil was passed by the country's lower house Thursday, drawing criticism by the environmental minister who floated the possibility of ...