World Dec 02 Oil companies pledge at COP28 to slash methane pollution, but critics call it a ‘smokescreen’ Fifty oil companies representing nearly half of global production have pledged to reach near-zero methane emissions and end routine flaring in their operations by 2030, the president of this year's United Nations climate talks said Saturday.
World Nov 20 How will the new UN climate deal on a ‘loss and damage’ fund work? The decision Sunday by nations around the world to establish a fund to help poor countries hit hard by a warming planet was one of the most significant since U.N. climate talks began 30 years ago. Here is a look…
World Nov 16 Brazil’s Lula pledges ‘big fight’ against deforestation at COP27 Six weeks before taking power, Brazilian President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva took several swipes at outgoing President Jair Bolsonaro, who pushed development of the Amazon, both in his pro-business rhetoric and how his administration managed the forests.
World May 26 Climate activists in Davos say major issues ignored While climate change was the focus of many discussions, activists say that important things like helping people who are impacted by climate change, largely didn't happen.
World Mar 21 Arrest order issued for Brazil’s ex-president Michel Temer Temer is being investigated in several corruption cases.
Politics Mar 19 WATCH: Trump predicts ‘fantastic working relationship’ with Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro President Donald Trump praised Brazil's new far-right leader Tuesday as he welcomed him to the White House, saying the man who's been described as the "Trump of the Tropics" has done "a very outstanding job."…
World Mar 14 Brazil mourns victims of school shooting Seven were killed in the school shooting Wednesday, including five students, a teacher and a school administrator. Nine others were wounded.
World Jan 28 Death toll from Brazil dam collapse rises to 58 Hopes are fading that more survivors will be found after a dam collapse buried surrounding neighborhoods with iron ore waste.
World Jan 27 Search for Brazil dam survivors renews amid growing despair Brazilian officials on Sunday suspended the search for potential survivors of a dam collapse that has killed at least 40 people amid fears that another nearby dam owned by the same company was also at risk of breaching.
World Oct 29 Brazil elects far-right president, worrying rights groups Jair Bolsonaro's victory moved Brazil, the world's fourth-largest democracy, sharply to the right after four consecutive elections in which candidates from the left-leaning Workers' Party won.