brazil

During the first six months of President Lula's time in office, the area of deforested land in the Amazon has dropped by 33 percent.

Forest-Change

A massive dust storm struck Brazil on Sunday, with massive plumes of dirt appearing to engulf entire cities that were enduring a long-term drought.

Regions of the Amazon rainforest are now releasing more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than they can absorb.

A doctor from a COVID task force to Brazil compared the country's horrible pandemic response to a "biological Fukushima."

WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned that the coronavirus outbreak could get worse if countries don't nip it in the bud.

Bad news: record-breaking fires have been burning up Brazil's Amazon rainforest since January, an increase of over 83 percent since last year.