Brazil is experiencing one of the wettest rainy seasons on record. On Brazil's southern coast, five months of rain fell in 15 days. Flooding lead to over a hundred deaths and over 400,000 people ...

As world leaders grapple with the U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, Brazil, the host of this year’s COP30 global climate summit, sees an opportunity to amplify the voices of developing nations ...

BELEM, Brazil (AP) — For 30 years, world leaders and diplomats have gathered at United Nations negotiating sessions to try to curb climate change, but Earth’s temperature continues to rise and extreme ...

The recent devastating floods in Brazil's south have brought to light a complex web of factors that have contributed to the disaster. Almost every city of Rio Grande do Sul state has been hit by ...

Brazil is expanding its oil and gas exploration and production, including auctioning new blocks in environmentally sensitive areas, despite hosting the COP30 climate summit. President Lula da Silva's ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. In April and May 2024, 90% of Brazil’s state of Rio Grande do Sul was flooded, including the capital city of Porto Alegre (Figure 1), displacing ...

Fernando Haddad, Brazil's finance minister, during a news conference with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Brazil's Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, not pictured, at the Alvorada Palace in Brasilia in 2024.

WASHINGTON/BRASILIA (Reuters) -A group of 35 finance ministers laid out suggestions on Wednesday for scaling climate finance to $1.3 trillion a year, a key demand by developing nations ahead of this ...

The 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 29) in Baku, Azerbaijan closed out with a deal for rich countries to contribute $300 billion over 10 years to help developing countries fight ...

MUCUM, Brazil — Devastating and ongoing flooding in southern Brazil is forcing some of the half million displaced residents to consider uprooting their lives from inundated towns to rebuild on higher ...

Brazil will host the 2025 UN Conference of Parties (COP) climate summit in the Amazon rainforest and focus on “challenges” and “success stories.” Analysts can find both in actions by the country and ...

The most high-stakes United Nations climate change conference in years is taking place this November in Belém, Brazil. It’s the 10th anniversary of the landmark Paris agreement, which committed nearly ...