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Environment
Rising temperatures could cause irreversible damage to Amazon trees
A study by the University of São Paulo shows that leaves of Amazonian trees are close to critical temperatures, which could lead to tree death. The findings are particularly worrying amid the region's worst drought on record
6 months ago • Diogo Rodriguez
Insider
Inter-American Court of Human Rights visits Yanomami land
6 months ago • Amanda Audi
Environment
Lula’s inconsistent moves on the environment
Amazon deforestation has been halted by more than 60 percent since the beginning of the year. But the overall picture is less rosy, as government officials have not been sending the same message on the environment
6 months ago • Amanda Audi
Insider
One of the Amazon’s main rivers reaches its lowest level on record
6 months ago • Amanda Audi
Environment
Timber trafficking still thrives in Brazil’s Western Pará
Former Environment Minister Ricardo Salles faced heat for decrying a historic 2020 timber seizure in the Brazilian Amazon. Almost three years on, the problem has reared its head once again
6 months ago • Euan Marshall
Insider
Petrobras wants to drill for oil off the Amazon coast already in 2024
6 months ago • Cedê Silva
Economy
Market Roundup: JBS faces greenwashing questions as it eyes New York move
The Brazilian meatpacking company is being accused of concealing damages that its operations cause to the Amazon
7 months ago • Diogo Rodriguez
Environment
A macabre dolphin mystery amid severe Amazon drought
More than one hundred pink river dolphins have turned up dead in a river in the central Amazon, as the region edges closer to an all-time record drought. And low river levels are making the mystery impossible to solve
7 months ago • Euan Marshall
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Politics
Brazil’s firearms debate takes a U.S. twist
23 hours ago • Cedê Silva
Politics
Opinion polls show increasing power of right-wing governors
1 week ago • Gustavo Ribeiro and Cedê Silva
Politics
How Elon Musk joins Brazil’s online far-right
2 weeks ago • Cedê Silva
Politics
Musk probe increases the likelihood of an X ban in Brazil
2 weeks ago • Paulo Roberto Netto
Politics
Congress, Supreme Court battle on immunity rules
2 weeks ago • Cedê Silva
Insider
Lula fails (again) to fulfill indigenous land promises
20 hours ago • Cedê Silva
Insider
Senators try to outmaneuver Supreme Court on drugs issue
3 days ago • Cedê Silva
Insider
Lula is Colombia-bound for meeting with Petro
3 days ago • Cedê Silva
Insider
Budgetary guidelines bill moves Brazil’s fiscal goalposts
5 days ago • Cedê Silva
Insider
The Brazilian Report named best news website in the Americas
1 week ago • Gustavo Ribeiro
Economy
Brazil keen on moving fiscal goalposts
6 days ago • Cedê Silva
Economy
Market Roundup: Rules for betting platforms to be set in four stages
7 days ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
Economy
March inflation a good omen for Brazilian economy
1 week ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
Economy
Market Roundup: Corporate financing via capital market breaks record
2 weeks ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
Economy
Once a major exporter, Brazil seeks cocoa self-sufficiency
2 weeks ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
Tech
The startup helping producers comply with EU deforestation rules
22 hours ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
Tech
Rio wants to be the new LatAm innovation capital with Web Summit
4 days ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
Tech
Tech Roundup: What to expect from Web Summit Rio 2024
5 days ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
Tech
Tech Roundup: An inclusive fitness app lands in Brazil
2 weeks ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
Tech
Tech Roundup: Solar power by subscription
3 weeks ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
Society
Drug traffickers retake Rio territories from militias, study finds
3 days ago • Isabela Cruz
Society
A hare-raising challenge in southern Brazil as invasive species multiplies like rabbits
1 week ago • Euan Marshall
Society
Healthy food hard to come by in Brazil’s favelas
2 weeks ago • Euan Marshall
Society
Urban militias show the “Mexicanization” of Rio de Janeiro
3 weeks ago • Cedê Silva
Society
Brazil records Covid spike, and coronavirus still kills plenty
2 months ago • TBR Newsroom
Environment
Petrobras is failing on Paris climate goals
4 weeks ago • Gustavo Ribeiro
Environment
Brazil’s coal city resists energy transition
1 month ago • André Borges
Environment
Amazon climate crisis continues with Acre floods and Roraima fires
1 month ago • Cedê Silva
Environment
After 2023 highs, Cerrado deforestation drops in January
2 months ago • Gustavo Ribeiro and Cedê Silva
Environment
Brazil-Bolivia dam reignites debates on power in the Amazon
2 months ago • Kevin Damasio
Latin America
Could Ecuador’s referendum mark the birth of a new Bukele?
2 days ago • Lucas Berti
Latin America
British bank Revolut granted license in Mexico
1 week ago • Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
Latin America
How Nicaragua developed its own sign language
1 week ago • Lucas Berti
Latin America
Trade tensions rise as U.S. accuses China of using Mexico as backdoor
2 weeks ago • David Feliba
Latin America
Violence casts a shadow over Mexico’s presidential cycle
3 weeks ago • Lucas Berti
Opinion
The future of X in Brazil, under Elon Musk
4 days ago • Andre Pagliarini
Opinion
AI and data protection in the spotlight at Global Privacy Summit
5 days ago • Marcela Mattiuzzo and Paula Pedigoni Ponce
Opinion
The future of nuclear power in Brazil’s diversified energy infrastructure
2 weeks ago • Jennifer Eaglin
Opinion
Is Brazil going too far to curb AI-generated disinformation?
3 weeks ago • Bruna Santos
Opinion
The dangerous hubris of Paraguay’s Colorado Party
4 weeks ago • Gabriel Cohen