Rights of Indigenous people, women and those with disabilities, and freedom of expression are undermined by President Bolsonaro's government policies, Human Rights Watch says in latest report.
Catholicism has dominated the region since the Europeans brought it through colonisation. Now, the Vatican looks set to lose a region which it ruled uncontested.
Torrential rains, flooding, and landslides kill at least 10 people in Minas Gerais state, with officials warning of more intense downpours in the South American region.
Officials suggested the wall coming loose could have been caused by heavy rains caused by recent flooding in the state, pand forced almost 17,000 people out of their homes.
Decision to stop monitoring the Cerrado, the world's most species-rich savanna, was made because of budget cuts, says a government scientist Claudio Almeida.
Bolsonaro, 66, has undergone four surgeries stemming from the abdominal stabbing he suffered during a 2018 campaign event.
Cerrado, spread across several states of Brazil, is one of the world's largest savannas and a major carbon sink that helps to stave off climate crisis.
The president had an intestinal obstruction and is in stable condition, a hospital in Sao Paulo said in a statement.
Almost every country on the planet has reduced its tobacco intake in 2020, according to the WHO’s latest findings.
Some 630,000 people in the northeast Brazil are affected by the floods amid the heaviest December rainfall in the Bahia state in 32 years.
More than 34,000 people have been made homeless and almost 43,000 are displaced due to severe flooding in northeastern Bahia state, with climatologists blaming global heating for the disaster.
Two dams break in Bahia state after weeks of heavy rains, swamping already swollen local rivers and threatening flash floods, regional authorities say.
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