Brazil’s lower house has passed a controversial bill that overhauls environmental legislation. Critics argue it undermines ...

The approval of a bill that weakens environmental rules for mining, infrastructure and agricultural projects has raised ...

The Brazilian Climate Minister, Marina Silva, said that the Bill “totally ignored that we are in a climate emergency” and ...

STORY: Brazil's Congress voted Thursday to weaken environmental permitting rules despite fierce opposition from ...

A significant bill to revise Brazil's environmental regulations has been passed by the lower house, drawing criticism from ...

The conservative coalition that dominates Brazil’s Congress is girding itself for one final push to roll back environmental regulations before campaigns for the country’s October presidential ...

With environmental laws defanged, deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest has surged further this year, rising 25% in the first five months of the year according to preliminary government data ...

Environmental regulations depend on different administrative spheres. We contacted by e-mail the Secretariat of Extractivism and Rural Sustainable Development from the Ministry of the Environment ...

Crucially, it requires governments to take measures to prevent, investigate, and impose sanctions for attacks against environmental defenders. Brazil signed the treaty in 2018, but neither the ...

A Brazilian court blocked government’s move to revoke key regulations protecting the country’s tropical mangroves after the move was fiercely criticized by environmental and climate groups.

Ricardo Salles, Brazil's environment minister, speaks to journalists in Sao Paulo in August 2019. Activists say Salles is working to appease certain business sectors that form a crucial part of ...

Attacks from the religious right on Marina Silva, a Pentecostal and longtime environmentalist, expose the rifts within Brazil ...