World Oct 25 Brazil to seek zero deforestation by 2028, up from 2030 Brazil's Vice President Hamilton Mourão has said that the government will accelerate its timeline by two to three years to completely eliminate illegal deforestation by 2027 or 2028.
World Apr 17 Worldwide COVID-19 death toll tops a staggering 3 million The number of lives lost, as compiled by Johns Hopkins University, is about equal to the population of Kyiv, Ukraine; Caracas, Venezuela; or metropolitan Lisbon, Portugal. It is bigger than Chicago (2.7 million) and equivalent to Philadelphia and Dallas combined.
World Mar 11 Brazil hospitals buckle in absence of national virus plan Brazil's hospitals are faltering as a highly contagious coronavirus variant tears through the country.
World Jan 15 Amazon rainforest city scrambles to provide oxygen to COVID-19 patients Some hope for Manaus, an isolated city of 2 million people, landed in a Brazilian air force plane on Friday with 6,000 liters of oxygen that are being distributed to hospitals.
World Nov 20 Brazil has surge of virus cases, downplayed by politicians Infections are increasing from Brazil's biggest cities to the Amazon and there's been rampant speculation the nation could be on track to follow the path of U.S. and Europe, where new cases are spiraling.
World Oct 08 Brazil strains at quarantine as virus cases pass 5 million Brazil has surpassed 5 million confirmed COVID-19 cases and is verging on 150,000 dead. However, Brazilians are burned out on quarantine.
Politics Sep 22 WATCH: Bolsonaro claims Brazil is victim of environmental smear campaign Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro defended his administration’s record protecting the Amazon rainforest, telling the United Nations’ virtual meeting of global leaders on Tuesday that his country has been wrongly portrayed as an environmental villain.
World Aug 18 Amazon continues to burn in 2020 despite promises to save it This year’s burning season could determine whether Bolsonaro, an avid supporter of bringing more farming and ranching to the Amazon, is willing and able to halt the fires.
World Jul 16 Brazil nears 2 million coronavirus cases, with 75,000 dead A thousand deaths a day. Since late May, three months after Brazil’s first reported case of the coronavirus, it has recorded more than 1,000 daily deaths on average in a gruesome plateau that has yet to tilt downward.
World Jul 07 Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro tests positive for COVID-19 Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro says he has tested positive for COVID-19 after months of downplaying the virus' severity.