Plans to privatize parts of crucial Amazon tributaries could bring logistics gains, but also involve exploding a riverbed rock formation and casting the livelihoods of local communities into doubt.
Launched at COP30, the Amazon Atlantic Trail is the largest continuously signaled trail in Latin America — and could serve as a conservation blueprint for other threatened regions.
Rounding off our COP30 coverage, this week’s Brazil Climate newsletter invited more guest contributors to give their first-hand takes on the UN conference in Belém.
With COP30 coming to a close in Belém, we decided to reach out to an expert on the ground, to give us a first-hand account of the conference.
A new report by the UN Environment Program calls for cooling to be considered essential infrastructure, alongside access to water, electricity and sanitation.
With drops in deforestation and greenhouse gas emissions to show for itself, Brazil is ready to “lead by example” at COP30 starting Monday.
Beyond counting carbon, adaptation is set to shape the future generations of climate action. And COP30 in Belém could kickstart that shift.
On the eve of COP30, participants are beginning to roll out their flagship initiatives to be unveiled at the conference — in finance, governance and livestock traceability.
Kicking off our COP30 coverage, we look at this week’s meetings in Brasília: the last chance for negotiations before the big day.
Touted as a game-changer for agribusiness, the 933-kilometer railway could also deepen Amazon deforestation and threaten traditional communities — and its economics may not add up either.
Brazil is positioning itself as a global climate leader, but is simultaneously locking itself into an environmentally perilous fossil gas expansion that directly contradicts its renewable ambitions.
Experts warn about the financial and climactic risk of Petrobras doubling down on fossil fuels, laying out a roadmap for the state-controlled firm to lead Brazil’s energy transition.
The ICO2 index on Brazil’s main stock exchange encourages companies to report emissions, but it has some huge blind spots.
Today is National Cerrado Day, celebrating Brazil’s vast, biodiverse, but often overlooked tropical savanna.
The appearance of an endangered Ornate Hawk-Eagle in a fragment of Atlantic Forest has served as a powerful symbol of restoration efforts ongoing in Brazil.
Federal crackdowns may drive out illegal miners, but without state support, indigenous peoples face renewed invasions — and the lure of fast cash continues to divide communities.
The 2024 murder of Pataxó leader Nega Pataxó underscores how the controversial time frame law and the rise of alleged landowner militias are fueling a surge in rural bloodshed.
Despite making a raft of vetoes to the controversial ‘Devastation Bill,’ one risky concession from President Lula is set to considerably weaken Brazil’s environmental licensing framework.
Drug gangs have seized control over large swaths of the Brazilian rainforest.
Higher temperatures are impacting agriculture, driving grocery costs up. And higher food prices increase public dissatisfaction and cause political disruptions.
Brazil's national conservation system has turned 25 years old, but it is under threat from persistent political pressures and the ongoing climate emergency.
Biomethane is one of Brazil’s bets for the energy transition, harnessing and capturing this particularly potent greenhouse gas.
Partial data suggests that Brazil’s all-important 2024-25 annual Amazon deforestation figure could show an increase, instead of the promised reduction.
With Brazil’s environmental credentials under pressure, we look at how much greenhouse gas Brazil emits, and how its emissions profile compares to other countries around the world
Negotiators make timid progress at the UN climate meetings in Bonn, which will lay the groundwork for much of the topics to be discussed at COP30 in Belém
