Petrobras obtained approval from the country's environmental agency to clear corals from the underside of the drilling vessel ...

Brazil's Petrobras has obtained approval from the country's environmental agency to clear corals from the underside of the ...

Electricity is essential for the well-being and prosperity of traditional riverside communities in the Amazon, as demonstrated by the experience of the Santa Helena do Inglês community, located on the ...

It’s amazing, it’s amazing! I have no other word to describe it.” That’s how biologist Marcos Roberto de Brito defines the ...

The Foreign Office, or FCDO, has issued a warning to UK holidaymakers who are heading out of the European Union for Brazil.

Brazil’s Carnival muse this year isn’t one of the divas or drum queens parading with the Rio de Janeiro samba schools.

In the Yanomami Indigenous Land, the largest in Brazil, leaders believe in their youths’ skills to maintain their ancestors’ ...

The technical staff at Brazil's environmental agency Ibama recommended that the body deny authorization for Petrobras to carry out drilling in the environmentally sensitive Foz do Amazonas region, two ...

So when is Rio Carnival, what is it celebrating, and how can you get involved? Here’s everything you need to know. The Carnival is an annual event that always begins on the Friday before Ash ...

In Brazil's Amazon, dolphin therapy aids people with disabilities Floating in the Rio Negro river in the Brazilian Amazon, Luiz Felipe, who has Down Syndrome, beams as he hugs a pink dolphin during a ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Rio Tinto has urged shareholders to reject an activist investor’s proposal to abandon its primary listing ...

Japanese trading house Mitsui & Co will take a US$5.3 billion stake in Rio Tinto’s 6.8 billion tonne Rhodes Ridge iron ore project in the Pilbara. "However it wishes to see Rhodes Ridge ultimately ...