Brazil

The massive Amazon — it’s about the size of Australia — stores huge amounts of the world’s carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas driving climate change, even as it’s rapidly deforested.

A man who failed in an attempt to break into Brazil’s Supreme Court killed himself in explosions outside the building Wednesday that forced justices and staff to evacuate, authorities said.

In a 12-month span, the Amazon rainforest lost 6,288 square kilometers (2,428 square miles), roughly the size of the U.S. state of Delaware.

A three-year-old border collie named Floki has been teaching people how to play footvolley on the beaches of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

A few thousand supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro have begun flooding Sao Paulo’s main boulevard for an Independence Day rally.

Venezuela’s government has revoked permission for Brazil to serve as custodian of Argentina’s diplomatic missions in the country, alleging that several anti-government opponents holed up for months in the Argentine ambassador’s residence had been plotting terrorist acts from the compound.

Investigators say the pilots of a Brazilian passenger plane that crashed last month, killing all 62 people aboard, reported failure in the system to remove ice from the plane.

Jalen Hurts and Jordan Love are hard to miss in the Brazilian metropolis of São Paulo, with their faces gazing skyward as part of a 108-foot-high mural on the side of a downtown building.

Following Brazil’s recent ban of Elon Musk’s X platform, its users in the country appear to switching over to rival platforms.

More than 40 families of victims of an airliner crash in Brazil have gathered at a morgue and hotels in Sao Paulo as three French government investigators arrived in the country.

Brazilian rescue teams have retrieved the remains of all 62 passengers from the wreckage of a plane crash in Sao Paulo state as families began gathering in the metropolis to identify and bury their loved ones. Local airline Voepass’ plane, an ATR 72 twin-engine turboprop, was headed for Sao Paulo’s international airport in Guarulhos with 58 passengers and four crew...

Brazilians in South Florida were shocked to hear of a fiery plane crash that killed the over 60 people onboard. NBC6’s Jamie Guirola reports

Brazilian airline VoePass confirmed the accident in a statement, saying the plane crashed with 58 passengers and 4 crew members aboard.

Brazil’s Federal Police allege former President Jair Bolsonaro embezzled jewelry worth about $1.2 million during his time in office.

The indictment of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro for money laundering and criminal association in connection with undeclared diamonds from Saudi Arabia marked the far-right leader’s second formal accusation with more potentially in store.

The date is when Pele scored what is considered to be the 1,000th goal of his career in 1969.

Thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets of the capital as protests sweep across Brazil in opposition to a bill that would further criminalize abortions.

Orange juice prices have always been volatile and highly dependent on the weather, but the record-high prices the world is seeing for OJ right now may be on the table for a while.

Weighing in at over 2,400 pounds, a cow in Brazil sold for $4 million at a 2023 auction, making her the most expensive cow in the world.

The South Florida community is jumping in to help thousands of people in Brazil flee from flooding, and now families and organizations are doing everything they can to collect donations to help.