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Brazil Climate

Oct 29, 2026

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🌧️ November Rain

The strongest El Niño on record is drowning Brazil’s south and baking its north, right as the soy goes into the ground.

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Brazil Climate

Oct 22, 2026

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🌳 Out of the woods?

Forest clearing in Brazil's Amazon fell 71% from 2022 levels. One economist values the climate dividend at BRL 1.16 trillion.

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Brazil Climate

Oct 15, 2026

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🔥 Smoke and mirrors

Fire hotspots in Amazonas have more than tripled from last year, and federal officials say most were lit on purpose.

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Oct 8, 2026

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🌡️ A second red zone

For decades, the Amazon’s danger map had one red zone: the deforestation arc in the south. A new study by 53 scientists just drew a second one.

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Brazil Climate

Oct 1, 2026

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🫧 More beef, less burp

Forty years of trials in Acre show cattle on mixed grass-legume pastures gaining more weight per hectare while emitting less methane per kilo gained. Persuading ranchers has been slower than the science.

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Brazil Climate

Sep 24, 2026

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💵 Where the money pipes clog

A new guide from the Brazilian Climatech Forum maps 141 potential funders and shows why capital so often misses the companies that need it.

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Brazil Climate

Sep 17, 2026

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⚖️ Big bend, big stakes

The Xingu's Big Bend already loses most of its flow to the Belo Monte dam. Now a Canadian miner wants to add a massive tailings dam

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Brazil Climate

Sep 10, 2026

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🦜 A new bird species

Sound archives, a neural network, and two specimens collected in 1941 were enough to split the Baturité Antthrush from one of South America's most widespread forest birds.

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Brazil Climate

Sep 3, 2026

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😰 Bracing for El Niño

Federal agencies say the 2026-27 event could be the strongest since 1950. The health system has a plan. The dredges are, once again, running late.

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Brazil Climate

Aug 27, 2026

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🏜️ Fewer droughts, but worse ones

A new study projects that dry spells in the Paraíba do Sul basin — the water source for more than 20 million people — will grow longer and far more severe.

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Brazil Climate

Aug 20, 2026

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🐟 Mariana's long tail

Anomalies turned up in 60.5% of the otoliths sampled at the mouth of the São Mateus River, more than double the previous national high.

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Brazil Climate

Aug 13, 2026

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🌳 Right on paper, gone in practice

Justices upheld the agreement's validity but said a private pact cannot bind state action. But states were also allowed to withhold tax breaks from companies that take part.

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Brazil Climate

Aug 6, 2026

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💦 Flying rivers, drying up

Amazon deforestation is linked to falling rainfall in the Iguaçu River basin, the hydrological engine of southern Brazil's economy

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Brazil Climate

Jul 30, 2026

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💨 Off-season storm

Rare July windstorms killed five people and cut power to half a million properties, days after Brasília unveiled a package built for a slower kind of disaster.

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Brazil Climate

Jul 23, 2026

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🌡️ The heat tax

A new study puts a number on what three decades of warming cost Brazilian agriculture — and finds the damage concentrated exactly where the country can least absorb it.

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Brazil Climate

Jul 16, 2026

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⚠️ Not worth a dam

The country's 2026 dam-safety audit shows an expanding inventory, a shrinking inspection workforce and a budget moving the wrong way.

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