Brazil

We will not have the luxury of looking back at Lula's last term as president through rose tinted glasses. We need radical change in Brazil now.

The world has a new way to make money from the Amazon. Indigenous peoples and traditional communities could find themselves serving a more hostile economy.

Brazil is a global testing ground for green finance, regenerative agriculture and forest restoration. The concentration of influence deserves attention.

Beneath Brazil's forests, farms and cities, a vital water reserve is showing signs of strain.

The war the world refuses to recognise is unfolding in the Amazon.

A Brazilian fossil fuel giant’s PR machine goes into overdrive.

The Amazon is being drawn into financial systems that reshape how nature is valued, and how success is measured.

Indigenous leaders, traditional communities and researchers are resisting development in the Amazon rainforest that could push its ecosystems past irreversible tipping points.

Scientists warn Brazil is entering a hidden water crisis with global consequences.

Brazil’s Cerrado is being transformed by industrial agriculture - with British trade playing a direct role in the loss of water systems, biodiversity and climate stability.

Polluted rivers, collapsing ecosystems and communities left adrift. And now Britain’s water privatisation concept is being exported to Brazil.

Climate breakdown, fungal disease, and the Brazilian hospital on the frontline of a heating world.

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.