Brazil

COP30 countdown: the banks financing the Amazon’s oil addiction.

Police in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, will be paid bonuses for killing suspects. Aimed at organized crime, the law will hit ethnic minorities - and eco-activists.

The BR-319 threatens the Amazon in the name of ‘progress’ and politics.

COP30 Spotlight: counting the cost of Amazon hydropower to local indigenous communities.

Decentralised solar has the potential to support co-operative, municipal and other forms of community ownership and control.

BR-319: Paving the way for Indigenous displacement and environmental catastrophe.

Brazil’s new pesticide law: no safe distance from toxic exposure.

Will Brazil step up as a climate leader before COP30?

Consensus decision making could make COP30 democratic, relevant and effective.

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism: How shipping companies ‘enable’ beef driven forest destruction in Brazil.

BR-319: A highway to climate chaos in the heart of the Amazon.

The president of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has bet big on biofuels - placing significant pressure on ecosystems and communities.

'Illegal loggers, miners, poachers and landgrabbers arrive once roads are bulldozed into rainforests.'

Belém in Brazil will host the COP30 international climate summit. But the city is struggling to deal with basic environmental and health issues.

Rampant fires have engulfed the Pantanal in Brazil, devastating endangered species and indigenous communities.

Dozens of animal advocacy organisations voice collective concern over Brazil's Self-Control Bill from the Ministry of Agriculture.

Misinformation campaign behind weakening of Amazon protections exposed by scientists.

Brazilian activists continue to campaign for justice two years on from the Brumadinho mining disaster in Brazil.

The Covid-19 pandemic has restricted protests by climate activists for several months, but Extinction Rebellion (XR) is planning its comeback.

Europe's resolve to act against the Bolsonaro government’s environmental crimes appears to be strengthening.

The UN Secretary-General proposed a military ceasefire during the pandemic, but we also need freedom from debt.

Communities and NGOs call out mining giant Anglo American on Amazon mining plans and Covid-19 response

In Rio Grande do Sul alone there are more than 150 mining projects that may leverage Brazil's new environmental code to their advantage.

Vigil outside Brazil Embassy to remember those killed in mining waste dam disaster.