Brazil: 2015 a bad year for rural communities
The Pastoral Land Commission's 2015 report paints a grim picture of the challenges facing peasants and indigenous people.
Brazil: legislating environmental disaster
Planned new legislation will encourage deforestation − at a time when fires caused by the serious drought are destroying vast areas of forest.
BNDES 1: The Bank, Corruption and the Amazon Dams
Brazil's BNDES, the world's largest development bank, appears to be out of control and damaging Brazil's people and biodiversity
Grand Nicaragua Canal: 6- Another nail in the coffin of the...
Nicaragua’s Grand Canal project continues to be delayed amid news that Wang has lost 85 percent of his fortune. The canal seems ever more to be a mirage. Russell White investigates.
Brazil — federal police have a sense of humour
The last episode in Brazil's fast-moving political drama around the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff gives us more arrests, head-butting and fisticuffs.
Brazil’s sea of mud
With the bursting of a dam full of iron ore tailings and other toxic metals in Minas Gerais state, Brazil is facing one its most serious environmental disasters ever.
Brazil — new government report warns of serious climate change
Report foresees failed hydropower and reduced harvests by 2040
Latin America in focus
Extraordinary collection of Latin American photos by photographer Matthew Williams-Ellis on show in London
Brazil — Theatre of the Absurd
With the extreme right in control of the Brazilian Congress, ethics has been stood on its head and events beggar belief. Jan Rocha reports from Sāo Paulo.
Brazil poised to approve Terminator seeds
With Brazil in political disarray, the agribusiness lobby is seeking gain approval from Congress for the Terminator seeds, that is, seeds genetically modified to be sterile. This would entail a huge risk for the country's precious biodiversity.