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Brazilian president says developed nations that over centuries have pumped emissions into the atmosphere must ‘pay their bit’The Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has told developed countries to put their money where their mouth is when i…
Eight South American presidents including Brazil’s Lula say rich countries need to pledge more resources to help protect rainforestAmazon leaders have called on rich countries to help them develop a Marshall-style plan to protect the world’s largest ra…
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva sets out ambitious programme to repair damage done by Bolsonaro and tackle environmental crimeThe Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has vowed to haul the Amazon out of centuries of violence, economic “plundering”…
Conclave represents handbrake turn in Brazilian government policy since Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva took powerThe leaders of Amazon nations including Brazil, Colombia and Peru have gathered in the Brazilian city of Belém for a rare conclave about the fut…
Several nations are buying or installing new radars or sending new planes in the air in hopes of better tracking drug transshipments.
A growing number of Brazilians are reclaiming their Indigenous identity, after years of fighting for rightsWhen a census taker came knocking on Vahnessa de Oliveira Ferreira’s door in Rio de Janeiro in 2010 and asked her how she identified racially, sh…
Buenos Aires records hottest start to August in 117 years, Chile sees highs towards 40C and Bolivia, Paraguay and Brazil also bakeNow should be South America’s bleak midwinter, but several parts of the continent are experiencing an extraordinary unseas…
The latest indictment of former President Donald J. Trump takes the United States to an uncharted place in its history. But other countries’ histories suggest that the prosecution of leaders accused of wrongdoing cannot fix underlying problems.
Ten people were killed in Rio favela and 19 people reportedly died in state of Bahia, while death toll rose to 16 in São Paulo region At least 45 people have been killed in a string of police operations across three Brazilian states, in a particularly …
Marina Silva welcomes progress but says climate crisis means upcoming regional summit needs to produce real actionDeforestation in the Brazilian Amazon fell by at least 60% in July compared to the same month last year, the environment minister, Marina …