A global treasure lies at the mercy of the smallest, dullest, pettiest of men.
The fires had burned for weeks but plunged President Jair Bolsonaro’s administration into crisis mode only now, after photographs began circulating widely.
With the Trump administration nearly silent, European leaders have energetically stepped in to take up the mantle of leadership. A trade deal could be at stake.
Maps and images based on satellite data provide clues to how the fires started.
The fires are real. But the photographs that celebrities and politicians are sharing? Well, it depends.
After days of playing down the fires raging across the Amazon, President Bolsonaro orders the military to step in. But it’s not clear that will be enough.
Ante los señalamientos de que fueron causados por el cambio climático o de que son poco comunes, ¿cuál es la verdad?
How widespread are the fires? Is climate change to blame? Who’s at fault for the burning?
El fuego que arrasa la selva se produce en medio de la creciente preocupación por el debilitamiento de las políticas ambientales de Brasil, lo que puede poner en peligro el comercio y las relaciones exteriores del país.
The rain forest, critical to absorbing the planet’s carbon dioxide, has seen an increase in deforestation under Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro.
The fires scorching the Amazon come amid growing concern that Brazil’s weakening environmental policies could jeopardize the country’s trade and foreign relations.
The fires, most of which have been set by farmers clearing their land, are raging in uninhabited areas of rain forest and intruding on populated areas in the country’s north.
Se han detectado más de 74.000 incendios en la parte brasileña de la mayor selva del planeta desde inicios de 2019, según un centro de investigación.
La violencia policial en la segunda ciudad más poblada de Brasil es evitable. El drama que vive Río es político: deriva de una estrategia equivocada y peligrosa.
“I love American people,” said Mohamed Ahmed El Sayed Ahmed Ibrahim, an Egyptian living in Brazil who was named on a most-wanted bulletin.
“I love American people,” said Mohamed Ahmed El Sayed Ahmed Ibrahim, an Egyptian living in Brazil who was named on a most-wanted bulletin.
We can’t yet dig to the center of the Earth. But diamonds from far below ground offer tantalizing hints of what's down there.
Long associated with European cities, the style has plenty of history in other parts of the world, too. In Brazil, it reached a surprising apotheosis.
En la retórica del presidente de Brasil, el periodismo es un oficio delictivo y los políticos y activistas que lo critican, enemigos del Estado.
Políticos y simpatizantes dicen que el giro del país hacia la derecha extrema no hubiera sido posible sin el algoritmo de recomendaciones de YouTube. Una investigación sugiere que es cierto.
Brazil says it “stands ready to cooperate” with the F.B.I. seeks to interrogate an Egyptian man linked to planning attacks against the United States.
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Clauvino da Silva tried to escape from prison disguised as his teenage daughter. Days after prison officials publicized the attempt, they said Mr. da Silva had killed himself.
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The attempt, complete with a silicone mask and wig, was thwarted by guards who noticed the inmate’s nervousness as he tried to leave the prison.
Betsy Gotbaum, a former New York City public advocate, writes of “the need for major campaign finance reform at the state level.” Also: The Amazon rain forest.
The president claimed a government monitoring agency had released deforestation data with the intent to harm Brazil’s image abroad, a decision that incited protests from environmental organizations.
Those who resist powerful industries that savage ecosystems and drive people off their land face death and fear.
A master teacher, he was content to stay in Brazil. “If he had played more on the PGA Tour,” one golfer said, “I am sure he would be in the Hall of Fame.”
The authorities did not reveal the motive for the clash, only confirming that it was a fight between criminal groups, a day after 58 inmates were killed by a rival gang.
The deadliest prison massacre in Brazil in decades shows how powerful drug gangs have come to control the country’s overcrowded, underfunded prisons.
In the latest outbreak of prison violence in Brazil, inmates from rival factions faced off in an hourslong battle that left 16 prisoners decapitated.
Fierce criticism of the American agricultural giant shows how companies that fall short of ambitious commitments can quickly anger advocacy groups.
The weaver and artist Alison Grace Martin employs non-Euclidean geometry in her small bamboo creations. Now she’s scaling up.
Cutting down trees at the current rate could lead to runaway deforestation, environmentalists say. But President Bolsonaro is sticking to his promise to curb enforcement.
Land invasions in indigenous territories are on the rise across Brazil. Indigenous leaders say they regularly come under threat by miners, loggers and farmers.