Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro plans to deploy the army to tackle the wildfires raging in the Amazon rainforest. The troops will be deployed starting Saturday for the next month, according to ...

SÃO PAULO, Brazil — President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil poses the single greatest threat to the fragile equilibrium of the Amazon rain forest since the country was ruled by a military dictatorship.

Bolsonaro has dismissed environmental groups’ concerns and encouraged loggers to deforest more of the Amazon. On August 10th, in what became known as Fire Day, farmers in the town of Novo ...

Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro moved toward accepting foreign aid to battle the raging Amazon rainforest fires -- but insisted that the South American country must independently decide how the ...

Jair Bolsonaro maintains that the Amazon is rich in resources and local people need to be able to benefit from that. So he has proposed a law that would legalise mining on indigenous areas.

More than 2 billion trees in the Amazon have been cut down or burned on Bolsonaro’s watch, according to Imazon and MapBiomas, two of Brazil’s most renowned environmental research groups.

If Jair Bolsonaro remains in power—legally or illegally—his government will sabotage the global campaign to slow climate change. Cattle herd near an illegal fire at the Amazonia rainforest in ...

The number of Amazon fires rose 147 percent compared with September 2021, with more than 41,000 blazes detected by satellites. “This is a very dangerous moment,” warned Marcio Astrini, the ...

Brazilian accused confessed to taking the ball, which Neymar's boyhood club Santos -- to which he returned this year -- ...

Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro plans to deploy the army to tackle the wildfires raging in the Amazon rainforest. The troops will be deployed starting Saturday for the next month, according to ...

Jair Bolsonaro maintains that the Amazon is rich in resources and local people need to be able to benefit from that. So he has proposed a law that would legalise mining on indigenous areas.

As Brazilians prepare to pick Jair Bolsonaro or Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as their new president, ... There is no such thing as silence in the Amazon. The rustle of the trees, ...