The number of wildfires in Brazil increased 12.7 percent last year to a decade-high, according to official figures likely to add to pressure on President Jair Bolsonaro's government over the ...

Brazil's greenhouse gas emissions rose by 9.5 percent last year, mostly because of deforestation, a report said Thursday, making it one of the only major economies not to cut pollution as the pandemic ...

Nearly 17 million vertebrate creatures — animals like snakes, small birds and rodents — are estimated to have been killed throughout the wildfires in the Pantanal region of Brazil in 2020, according ...

Brazil begins defense of its Olympic title with a rematch of the 2016 gold-medal match against Germany on Thursday in the Tokyo Olympics 2021 opener for both teams in Yokohama, Japan. The teams played ...

Foreign direct investment (FDI) into Brazil halved in 2020 from the previous year and was its lowest since 2009, while portfolio outflows from domestic stocks and bond markets rose by more than a ...

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) provides a quantified assessment of press freedom violations in 2020 and looks back at some of the most significant episodes in a year in which constant harassment by ...

For those on the ground at Expo 2020 Dubai looking to transport themselves to a far-flung tropical locale without leaving a once-barren expanse of desert abutting the Persian Gulf, the Brazil Pavilion ...

Brazil football legends Marta and Formiga created Olympic history on Wednesday in their opening match of the 2020 Tokyo Games. Marta, widely regarded as one of the greatest female footballers of all ...