Brazil

Climate

Germany pledges support for Brazil's tropical forest protection scheme

The Tropical Forest Forever Facility seeks seeks to leverage investments into €108 billion that can be used to pay 74 developing countries for every hectare of forest they conserve.

07/11/2025

Climate

Countries pledge billions for rainforest protection fund at COP30

Brazil’s rainforest preservation fund details announced at COP30, draws worldwide support

07/11/2025

Earth News

COP30 explained: What it is, who’s going and why it matters

The annual climate conference will take place in Belem, Brazil, from 10 November to 21 November.

07/11/2025

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Prince William honors global climate innovators in Rio

In Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday, the Earthshot Prize brought together Brazilian and global celebrities alongside Prince William, who is in the city for a three-day environmental programme before travelling on to the COP30 UN climate summit.

06/11/2025

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COP30 activists in Belem call for genuine climate action

As COP30 begins in Belem, Brazil, activists highlight slow progress with visual protests, urging leaders for real action as global temperatures worsen.

06/11/2025

Climate

Global mayors gather in Brazil to pledge climate action ahead of COP30

A coalition of mayors from around the world also launched a global coalition to prepare cities for a hotter future.

04/11/2025

Brazil

Brazil favela left reeling after 132 killed in narco-gang raid

The operation's stated objectives were capturing leaders and limiting the territorial expansion of the Red Command gang, which has increased its control over favelas in recent years.

31/10/2025

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Major Rio police raid leaves 60 suspects dead

Around 2,500 police officers and soldiers launched a large-scale raid against drug traffickers in Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday, resulting in the deaths of at least 60 suspects and the arrest of 81 others, officials said.

29/10/2025

Brazil

At least 64 people dead in huge Brazil police raid on Rio drug gang

The police operation was one of the most violent in Brazil’s recent history, with human rights organisations calling for investigations into the deaths.

29/10/2025

Brazil

Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro appeals his prison sentence

Bolsonaro was convicted of attempting a coup after losing the 2022 presidential race to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in a plot that prosecutors alleged included plans to kill Lula.

28/10/2025

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Hundreds of Indigenous protesters call for land recognition in Brazil

About 200 members of Indigenous communities marched in Brasília on Monday, carrying a giant symbolic decree and a five-meter inflatable pen to urge President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to sign the demarcation of 104 pending Indigenous lands before COP30.

14/10/2025

Brazil

Early-stage skin cancer detected in Bolsonaro, doctors in Brazil say

Bolsonaro's lawyers are likely to put his ill health forward as an argument for house arrest rather than prison following his coup conviction.

17/09/2025

Economy

Brazil's Lula pushes back against US tariff after Bolsonaro sentencing

After last week’s ruling against former President Bolsonaro, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio posted on X that Trump’s government “will respond accordingly”.

15/09/2025

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Crowds cheer in Brasília after Bolsonaro convicted of coup attempt

Opponents of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro celebrated across Brasília on Thursday night after the Supreme Court sentenced him to more than 27 years in prison for attempting a coup.

12/09/2025

Brazil

Brazil's Bolsonaro sentenced to 27 years for plotting attempted coup

Four out of five Brazilian supreme court judges voted on Thursday to convict the former president of mounting coup to try and stay in power.

11/09/2025

Brazil

Brazil's Supreme Court nears verdict in Bolsonaro coup plot case

If convicted by the five-judge panel in the verdict expected by the end of the week, Bolsonaro could be sentenced to decades behind bars.

09/09/2025

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Rio police free hostages in raid that leaves eight dead

Police in Rio de Janeiro freed two hostages, including a child, during a raid on a drug trafficking ring Thursday that left eight suspected gang members dead.

05/09/2025

Brazil

Jair Bolsonaro planned to seek asylum in Argentina, Brazil police say

Bolsonaro is currently awaiting a Supreme Court ruling about an alleged coup attempt and learned on Wednesday he might face another case as police formally accused him and one of his sons, Eduardo Bolsonaro, of obstruction of justice.

21/08/2025

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Protesters criticise Trump over Gaza war and trade tariffs in Brazil

Dozens of protesters gathered outside the US Consulate in São Paulo to denounce US President Donald Trump’s new tariffs on Brazilian exports and his support for Israel’s war in Gaza.

20/08/2025

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Jongo festival in Rio calls for cultural preservation 

Dancers from 18 communities rooted in Brazil’s history of slavery gathered in Rio de Janeiro this week to perform Jongo, a traditional dance with African origins.

19/08/2025

Brazil

Brazil's Bolsonaro rejects coup allegations in final court statement

The former president and other defendants were required to present their final arguments by Wednesday. This marks the final procedural step before the trial concludes, which is expected by the end of the year.

14/08/2025

Brazil

Brazil announces $5.5B in credits for exporters hit by US tariffs

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva described the plan, which includes a bill to be sent to Congress, as a first step to help local exporters.

14/08/2025

Brazil

Brazil judge places former President Jair Bolsonaro under house arrest

The ruling comes a month after Brazil’s top court ordered the former president to wear an ankle monitor, submit to a curfew and abide by limitations on his activity as legal proceedings investigating an alleged coup plot continue.

05/08/2025

Earth News

Brazil brings COP30 to Belem to highlight poverty and climate risks

In Belem, the UN climate summit will bring global leaders face to face with the harsh realities of climate change and inequality.

28/07/2025

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Dead humpback whale washes ashore in Rio de Janeiro

A humpback whale was found dead on a beach in Rio de Janeiro on Monday, after drifting ashore near the city’s southern coastline in the early afternoon.

22/07/2025

Culture news

Brazilian singer and feminist activist Preta Gil dies aged 50

The 50-year-old Brazilian artist and activist, who has died of cancer, was the daughter of singer and former culture minister Gilberto Gil.

21/07/2025