Each dry season, farmers carve up and burn hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of acres in one of the world’s largest ...

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Brazilian researchers are using laser technology to unearth a lost Portuguese colony and challenge long-held beliefs about ...

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Researchers in the Amazon have discovered new genetic mechanisms in fish parasites that could lead to vaccines, potentially ...

With the first U.N. climate talks in the Amazon approaching, thousands of Indigenous people marched Tuesday in Brazil’s capital, demanding the state guarantee and expand their rights to traditional ...

Here’s something that foreigners don’t realize: Brazil discriminates against itself. The Northeast—or Nordeste as we call ...

Doctors placed former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro in the DF Star Hospital's intensive care unit after his health ...

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Criminal groups are operating to smuggle illegal gold from the Brazilian Amazon into Venezuela, where the metal is laundered and exported overseas. Illegal gold traders adopted this new strategy ...