Brazil

Lula hosts Merkel to sign deal on biofuels

biofuelsBrasilia - German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday called for cooperation on

Brazilian environment minister resigns

brazilBrasilia - Marina Silva resigned Tuesday as Brazilian environment minister, a position

Brazil's forest loss now linked to world food prices

Rio de Janeiro  - Brazil will have little to boast of at the upcoming biodiversity conference in Bonn: It has just released alarming figures highlighting the continuing destruction of the rainfores

Coal mine explosion in Brazil injures at least 25, leaves 2 missing

Rio de JaneiroRio de Janeiro - An explosion in a Brazilian coal mine injured at least

Legless lizard, tiny woodpecker among 14 new species found in Brazil

Washington, April 30 : Scientists from Conservation International (CI) and Brazilian universities have discovered a legless lizard and a tiny woodpecker along with 12 other suspected new species in

At least 11 die as police raid slum in Rio de Janeiro

Rio De JaneiroRio de Janeiro - At least 11 people were killed and a 70- y

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