The Brazilian Parliament has approved legislation that conservationists denounce as potentially setting back protection of the Amazon by 40 years. The initiative has sparked international backlash.

The climate has changed naturally throughout the Earth's history. But natural causes cannot explain the particularly rapid warming seen over the last century, according to the UN's climate body, the ...

Brazil's Climate Observatory has called the bill the "biggest environmental setback" since Brazil's military dictatorship, in ...

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In Belem, the UN climate summit will bring global leaders face to face with the harsh realities of climate change and ...