Bolsonaro’s Brazil 2020: the march of the miners
President Michel Temer issued a presidential decree in 2017 to open up the vast 4.6 million hectare (17,800 square mile) RENCA preserve...
Revised Forecasts for Future of Amazon
Leading scientists meeting in Copenhagen in mid-March have produced highly alarming forecasts about the future of the Amazon forest.
Brazil: Love and Revolution
Brazil's pyjama generals take up arms against a TV soap. Jan Rocha reports from Sao Paulo.
Brazil Focus
Lula’s Achievement: from Neo-Liberalism to ‘Neo-Developmentalism’ (and definitely not Socialism)
Communities battle to save Amazon forest
Amazon communities have seized barges of hard wood to protest over illegal logging. Americas Report has the story
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’s Social Movements and the Olympics
LAB has been listening to leaders of Brazil's social movements to hear the messages they want to get across to the 10,000 journalists in Rio for the Olympics.
Brazil — new government report warns of serious climate change
Report foresees failed hydropower and reduced harvests by 2040
The Amazon: Mura indigenous community demands say over potash mine
In 2013, Potássio do Brasil, a subsidiary of the Canadian merchant bank, Forbes & Manhattan, began drilling exploratory wells for a giant...
Brazil: Forest code vote shows strength of agribusiness lobby
With the new Forest Code approved by the Senate, the agribusiness lobby presents President Dilma Rousseff with a new challenge: how much will she veto?