RIO DE JANEIRO, July 26 — Flavio Bolsonaro inherited his father’s powerful surname and political base, but without the fiery style that helped Jair Bolsonaro energise and reshape Brazil’s right, he has struggled to emerge from his shadow. The 45-year-old senator was little known nationally before h»»»

Forest fires in the Brazilian Amazon fell to a historic low in 2025 after peaking the previous year, according to a report published Tuesday. The data gathered by environmental monitoring network MapBiomas will come as good news for leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva ahead of seeking reele»»»

SAO PAULO - Forest fires in the Brazilian Amazon fell to a historic low in 2025 after peaking the previous year, according to a report published on July 21. The data gathered by environmental monitoring network MapBiomas will come as good news for leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva ahead o»»»

Protecting the Amazon is crucial to combat climate change, since its dense vegetation absorbs the greenhouse gases that cause global warming. (EPA Images pic) SAO PAULO: Forest fires in the Brazilian Amazon fell to a historic low in 2025 after peaking the previous year, according to a report publis»»»

PYKANY, Brazil, May 28, 2026 (BSS/AFP) - On a hot afternoon deep in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, Indigenous chief Megaron soaps himself and enjoys a quick swim in the river, a brief respite from battling threats to his people's lands. The 75-year-old, with long white hair and sharp black geometric l»»»

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon fell last year to its lowest level since 2019, according to a report published Wednesday that will be seen as good news for leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. South America's biggest country lost 985,000 hectares (2.4 million acres) of native vegetati»»»

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon fell last year to its lowest level since 2019, according to a report published Wednesday that will be seen as good news for leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. South America's biggest country lost 985,000 hectares (2.4 million a»»»

It was a tense moment. A group of about 50 people from the Munduruku, an Indigenous people in the Amazon basin, had blocked the entrance to the Cop30 venue in protest, causing long lines of delegates to snake down access roads, simmering in the morning heat. The Munduruku, unhappy about the ruinati»»»

Fabio Nogueira, a leader of the Menino Jesus Quilombola Afro-descendant community, stands in front of a proposed landfill, which is 500m from their homes. Credit: Joyce Chimbi/IPS BELÉM, Brazil, Nov 20 2025 (IPS) - Just 30 minutes from where the UN climate negotiations are unfolding in the port cit»»»

RIO DE JANEIRO (TIP): “Belem is ready,” Brazilian officials have insisted ahead of the COP30 gathering in November — but eye-watering lodging costs in the northern city have panicked many would-be attendees. President President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has personally championed the symbolic ... »»»

Brazilian accused confessed to taking the ball, which Neymar's boyhood club Santos -- to which he returned this year -- gifted to the Chamber of Deputies in 2012. Supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro protest his Supreme Court trial, in which he is accused of involvement in a 2022 coup atte»»»

Thousands of Indigenous people were rallying at a protest camp in Brazil's capital city to call for their land rights to be protected. The protesters were also pushing for commitments to end fossil fuels during the upcoming COP30 Summit, which will be held in the northern city of Belem in November.»»»