Oct 27 Watch 7:51 Bolsonaro may face criminal charges for botching COVID response over 'false dilemma' By Nick Schifrin, Layla Quran A Brazilian Senate committee investigating President Jair Bolsonaro submitted their findings to the country’s attorney general Wednesday. It recommended criminal charges for Bolsonaro's pandemic response. The inquiry is unprecedented and scathing, accusing a sitting head of state of crimes against… Continue watching
Oct 26 Brazil senators to vote on urging charges for Bolsonaro By Débora Álvares, Associated Press A Brazilian Senate committee is voting Tuesday on a report recommending President Jair Bolsonaro face a series of criminal indictments for actions that allegedly added to the world's second-highest death toll. Continue reading
Oct 25 Brazil to seek zero deforestation by 2028, up from 2030 By David Biller, Associated Press 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. Continue reading
Oct 20 Brazil Senate report to urge Bolsonaro be charged over pandemic By Débora Álvares, Diane Jeantet, Associated Press Wednesday's report will call for Bolsonaro to be indicted on nine charges, from charlatanism and inciting crime all the way up to crime against humanity. Continue reading
Sep 24 McDonald's pledges to phase out plastic in Happy Meal toys, a new app treats spider phobias and other stories you missed By Deema Zein, Julia Griffin A new app helps treat spider phobias using augmented reality, researchers teach cows to use the potty and McDonald’s says it’ll phase out fossil-fuel based plastic from Happy Meal toys. Check out these stories and others you might have missed… Continue reading
Jun 29 Brazil redeploying troops to Amazon rainforest, bans most fires By Débora Álvares, Associated Press Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has signed a decree to dispatch soldiers to the Amazon in a bid to curb surging deforestation, just two months after withdrawing troops from the region. Continue reading
Jun 19 Official death toll in Brazil approaches 500,000 By Associated Press The South American country has now registered 17,801,462 cases since the pandemic began, while the official death toll has risen to 498,499, according to ministry data, in the world's third-worst outbreak outside the United States and India and its second-deadliest. Continue reading
Jun 01 In Brazil's Amazon, rivers rise to record levels By Fernando Crispim, Diane Jeantet, Associated Press Rivers around the biggest city in Brazil's Amazon rainforest have swelled to levels unseen in over a century of record-keeping, straining a society that has grown weary of increasingly frequent flooding. Continue reading
May 25 Watch 9:24 Inequities in care, misinformation fuel COVID deaths among poor, indigenous Brazilians By Simon Ostrovsky, Charles Lyons All across Brazil, slums — known as Favelas — have long been places of crime and poverty, marked by overcrowding and unsanitary conditions. They are among the hardest hit by the pandemic, in a country where the death toll just… Continue watching
May 21 Watch 6:04 4 ways the US can help stem COVID deaths globally By William Brangham While the pandemic's toll is easing in the U.S., COVID-19 still has a deadly grip on many other countries. The estimated global death toll remains around 13,000 people a day, and the World Health Organization's new estimates are far higher. Continue watching