Brazil

Travel News

Brazil beach clean up makes water swimmable for first time in 10 years

For the first time in a decade, Rio de Janeiro's beaches are safe for swimming.

28/09/2023

Nature

'Lost’ Brazilian tree rediscovered after almost 200 years

A species of small holly tree last seen nearly two centuries ago has been rediscovered in Brazil.

23/09/2023

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Supreme court ruling in Brazil returns land to indigenous people

The judges were evaluating a lawsuit brought by Santa Catarina state, backed by farmers, seeking to block an Indigenous group from expanding the size of its territorial claim.

22/09/2023

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Brazil's top court rules in favour of Indigenous land rights

Brazil's top court has ruled in favour of Indigenous land rights, rejecting a proposal limiting them to claims for land they occupied in 1988.

22/09/2023

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WATCH: Brazil's indigenous women march to protect their lands

Brazil's Supreme Court is debating the "time-frame argument" that says indigenous people cannot claim land as their own if they were not living there in 1988.

14/09/2023

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Brazil: Pro-Bolsonaro rioters on trial for 8 January disorder

Four men are on trial in Brasília accused of crimes including armed criminal conspiracy, violent uprising against the rule of law and an attempted coup

14/09/2023

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WATCH: Brazilian Indigenous women march to defend rights

"We're here to say no to the time frame argument," Elda Hunikui, an Indigenous leader from the Hunikui people, said.

12/09/2023

Brazil

Lula's u-turn on Putin arrest warrant waiver ahead of Rio's G20 summit

Brazil's president has qualified his words a day after claiming an International Criminal Court arrest warrant would be ignored if the Russian president visited Rio for the G20 summit in 2024.

11/09/2023

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Neymar breaks Pelé's record to become Brazil's all-time top goalscorer

Neymar netted twice in Brazil's World Cup qualifying match against Bolivia to set his national side's goal-scoring record at 79.

09/09/2023

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WATCH: Destroyed buildings after cyclone kills at least 31 in Brazil

Images of destroyed homes and stores and mud-covered streets in the city of Mucum, in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul.

07/09/2023

Earth News

Brazil: Dozens dead and towns destroyed in cyclone floods

More than 300mm of rain fell in 24 hours in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul on Monday leaving thousands homeless.

07/09/2023

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Watch: Brazil firefighters rescue people trapped by floods

Firefighters rescue people trapped by floodwaters in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil's southernmost state, where heavy rains have left at least 21 dead.

06/09/2023

Europe Decoded

In Brazil, the EU's deforestation law has many skeptics

The new EU law to ban imports of products that drive deforestation has been cheered by people across the continent but on the other side of the Atlantic, fears are growing it will disproportionately impact small farmers and lead to deforestation in less protected areas.

31/08/2023

Climate

Brazil: Climate change and El Niño fuel a rare winter heatwave

August temperatures have soared to 42C after the country recorded its hottest July ever.

25/08/2023

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WATCH: Brazil soapbox lovers challenge each other in traditional race

Enthusiasts of gravity racers or soapboxes - motorless vehicles which are raced on a downhill road - face each other in a race in Brazil's Belo Horizonte during the Virada Cultural festival.

21/08/2023

Brazil

Amazon summit agrees roadmap - but without concrete pledges

Speaking to reporters after Wednesday’s meeting, Brazil's President Lula da Silva said developed nations must make good on their pledges to provide monetary support for forest protection.

09/08/2023

Brazil

Amazon nations seek common voice on climate change

Eight Amazon nations called on industrialized countries to do more to help preserve the world's largest rainforest as they met at a major summit in Brazil to chart a common course on how to combat climate change.

09/08/2023

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Two-day Amazon summit set to focus on climate change and human rights

Eight South American countries are meeting in Brazil to thrash out co-ordinated policies for the Amazon basin.

08/08/2023

Culture news

This time for women! Brazilian murals painted for Women's World Cup

It is a tradition in the Vila Isabel neighbourhood in Rio de Janeiro, that artists paint a street for the Men’s World Cup. Now, for the first time, it is being covered in shades of yellow, blue, and green for the Women’s World Cup.

19/07/2023

Earth News

Brazil celebrates 34% drop in Amazon deforestation under Lula

It follows four years of rising destruction in the critical rainforest under Bolsonaro, but experts know “the fight isn’t over”.

07/07/2023

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Indigenous leader of the Kayapo tribe is honoured at annual festival

Indigenous leader of the Kayapo tribe, Cacique Raoni Metuktire, is honoured at the annual folklore festival known as Boi Bumba, in northern Brazil

02/07/2023

Earth News

World forests continue to shrink despite COP26 pledge, report says

A damning report by the World Resources Institute sheds light on the extent at which planet earth's forests are shrinking through deforestation, logging and wildfires.

27/06/2023

Brazil

Former right-wing president Bolsonaro on trial in Brazil

Jair Bolsonaro could be eliminated from the 2026 presidential race if a court decided he broke the law with his unproven allegations against the voting system.

22/06/2023

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Thousands 'hug' the ocean on Brazil beach for World Ocean Day

Thousands of people made a human chain on Brazil's Sao Conrado beach in Rio de Janeiro to "hug" the Atlantic Ocean on World Ocean Day.

09/06/2023

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WATCH: Indigenous Brazilians march ahead of trial over land future

Indigenous Brazilians marched through Brasilia on Tuesday ahead of a hearing on a proposed law that will limit their land rights.

07/06/2023

Culture news

'The Girl from Ipanema' singer Astrud Gilberto dies aged 83

Gilberto's rendition of 'The Girl From Ipanema' sold over five million copies, and made her a worldwide voice of bossa nova.

06/06/2023