Brazil’s President Lula da Silva has vetoed a bill that could reduce Jair Bolsonaro’s 27-year prison sentence for his failed ...

Scientists are uncovering why Brazil may be one of the most important yet underused resources for studying extreme longevity.

Surging Medicaid costs and dramatically shrinking federal aid are a recipe for fiscal crisis, state Comptroller Sean Scanlon warned.

THE FUTURE of Venezuela “must be determined by the Venezuelan people alone,” the UN’s top human rights official said today, ...

Following are reactions to Saturday's U.S. strikes on Venezuela. JOINT STATEMENT FROM BRAZIL, CHILE, COLOMBIA, MEXICO, SPAIN ...

Mayor Eduardo Paes (centrist) set aside one of the city's music stages for gospel, a genre closely tied to evangelical ...

Within hours of returning to office, in January 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump took an axe to multilateralism by pulling the United States out of the Paris climate accord and the World Health ...

Legal action has brought important decisions, from the scrapping of fossil fuel plants to revised climate plans ...

The Global Crisis. Deforestation and human-animal conflict have become dangerously intertwined as natural habitats shrink.

The document acknowledges an attempted coup d’état in Brazil and expresses concern about the risk of an excessive ...

The Legal Amazon is the most dangerous region in Brazil for defenders of human and environmental rights. Agribusiness, illegal mining, and timber exploitation are behind many murders that remain ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Wednesday condemned Brazil’s Congress for advancing the General Environmental Licensing Bill and called on lawmakers to support negotiations at COP30 and ratify the Escazú ...