A prominent nonprofit group in Brazil says that criminal gangs expanded their presence in the Brazilian Amazon last year and are now operating in nearly half of the region’s municipalities.

As Brazil's government seeks to boost its environmental credentials by hosting the United Nations' climate summit, a proposal to build a railway through the Amazon has threatened to tarnish that image amid protests by Indigenous groups.

Brazil wanted the U.N. summit to make it a leader on climate, despite signing off on oil drilling near the Amazon and gutting environmental permit law.

Brazilian authorities have raged against comments by Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz in which he appeared to look down on Belem, a city on the edge of the Amazon rainforest.

A climate march drew people from all over the world into the streets of Belém, Brazil, at the midpoint of the COP30 U.N. climate change conference. It was the first massive public demonstration at a COP in four years.

Has Friedrich Merz insulted Brazil? Brazilian news outlets seem to think so after his remarks following a short trip to the United Nations Climate Summit in Belem.

Demonstrators are marching in Belem, Brazil, at the halfway point of United Nations climate talks for what is typically their biggest day of protests during the event.