BRASILIA (Reuters) - President Jair Bolsonaro has drawn sharp criticism on the international stage from European leaders and environmental groups for his handling of wildfires raging in the Amazon, ...

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has insulted adversaries and allies, disparaged women, blacks and homosexuals, and even praised his country's 1964-1985 dictatorship. Yet nothing has rallied more ...

Daniel Wilkinson, managing director of Human Rights Watch's Americas division, says President Jair Bolsonaro has put ...

Lula has pledged to rein in deforestation and illegal mining Promises face strong political opposition in northern Amazonia Bolsonaro strongholds to be challenge for Brazil's new president BOA VISTA, ...

FILE PHOTO: An aerial view shows trees as the sun rises at the Amazon rainforest in Manaus (Reuters) - Brazilian space research center INPE said on Wednesday that carbon emissions in the Amazon forest ...

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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — After four years of rising destruction in Brazil’s Amazon, deforestation dropped by 33.6% during the first six months of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s term, according to ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — After four years of rising destruction in Brazil’s Amazon, deforestation dropped by 33.6% during the first six months of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s term, according to ...

Few places on earth carry the weight that the Amazon does. It regulates rainfall across continents, stores centuries worth of ...

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SAO PAULO: Wildfires in the Amazon rainforest in northern Brazil have ignited a firestorm on social media, with President Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday suggesting green groups started the blazes. “No ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — After four years of rising destruction in Brazil’s Amazon, deforestation dropped by 33.6% during the first six months of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s term, according to ...