Brazil — GM crops may be causing cancer
Brazil's National Cancer Institute is concerned about the health of the country's population, now that glyphosate, widely used in the cultivation of soya, has been classified as a "probable carcinogen".
Brazil: The Débâcle of the PT
The Workers' Party (PT) under President Dilma Rouseff has suffered a devastating blow, which will damage the left for years, argues a leading Brazilian analyst.
Brazil – the death of the PT
Bernardo Kucinski argues "The PT is certainly finished. Perhaps a new left will emerge from the cinders but I have my doubts."
Land in Brazil 2
MST leader João Pedro Stédile says that "political reform" is the only solution for the country's political crisis
Brazil — castigated by forest fires and dam bursts
With some of the largest forest fires in decades and a burst dam resulting in the country’s worst environmental disaster to date, it has...
Brazil: when the dream becomes a nightmare
It was ranked alongside Russia, India and China as an emerging global economic powerhouse but now the pillaging of Brazil’s natural resources, corruption at its highest levels and a crippling drought is threatening that status.
Brazil: Why land demarcation matters to indigenous people
Marking out land is to stake out rights, ownership, stewardship. Unmarked land can just be seized. Felipe Garcia, a volunteer at the Munduruku Demarcation Mission, explains.
Rio: Beauty and the beach
Images of the female body illustrate Brazil's divisions of race and class, of liberation and repression -- nowhere more so than on the beach.
São Paulo: water tankers are the new normal
How long can the authorities dither over the growing water crisis affecting Brazil's southeast?
Brazilian Indians secure nationwide land victory
After months of struggle, Brazil's Indians stop Congress from passing legislation that would jeopardise their control over their land