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The two candidates in Brazil's presidential elections campaign leading up to a runoff election. Left: President Jair Bolsonaro in Guarulhos on Saturday. Right: Former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Rio de Janeiro State on Oct. 11.

What to know about Brazil's election as Bolsonaro faces Lula, with major world impacts

5:18pm October 28, 2022

by Carrie Kahn

Brazilians head to the polls Sunday to vote in a presidential election that is testing the world's fourth-largest democracy and could have a critical impact on the fight against climate change.

A large fire in a recently deforested area of the Amazon rainforest along Highway BR-319 in the state of Amazonas, Brazil, on Sept. 25.

Brazil's election could determine the fate of the Amazon after record deforestation

7:01am October 01, 2022

by John Otis

Under President Jair Bolsonaro, who is running for reelection in Sunday's vote, forest clearing and wildfires have surged in the Amazon.

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President Bolsonaro rides a motorbike with a supporter during a campaign rally in Santos on Wednesday.

World News

What you need to know about Brazil's presidential election

9:46am September 30, 2022

by Carrie Kahn

As one of the world's largest democracies heads to the polls on Sunday, here are the main candidates and issues in the Brazilian election.

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Jewish townspeople of the village of Nasielsk, Poland in 1938.

'The Territory' and 'Three Minutes: A Lengthening' find cinematic hope in tragedy

6:22pm August 18, 2022

by Bob Mondello

A pair of documentaries gleans what it can from a pre-WWII home movie and Indigenous efforts to halt the destruction of the Amazon rainforest.

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Images of British journalist Dom Phillips (left) and Indigenous affairs expert Bruno Pereira are seen on a sign presented by employees of Brazil's national Indigenous agency, FUNAI, during a vigil in Brasilia, Brazil, on June 9.

Opinion: A violent tragedy foretold in the Amazon

6:44pm June 17, 2022

by Robert Muggah

Two of the Amazon rainforest's staunchest advocates, Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips, are believed to have been killed in one of its remotest corners.

A man cries over his mother's grave in the Nossa Senhora Aparecida cemetery, in Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil, on Sept. 29, 2020. Iris Gonçalves Alves died at age 54 the previous day from COVID-19, according to the information on her burial record. During the

What happens when isolation goes beyond a pandemic

8:55am January 17, 2022

Photographer Raphael Alves documented how socioeconomic issues worsen the COVID-19 pandemic in the state of Amazonas, Brazil.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro pulls off his protective face mask to address the 76th session of the U.N. General Assembly at United Nations headquarters in New York on Tuesday.

Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro Remains Defiant On COVID-19 And The Environment At The U.N.

8:10pm September 22, 2021

by Jaclyn Diaz

So far, the president's trip to New York City for the United Nations General Assembly appears to be anything but a success for Brazil or the country's image after a series of blunders early this week.

A young, red-handed tamarin monkey. Some of these monkeys are changing their vocal call to better communicate with another species of tamarin.

Science

Scientists Say These Monkeys Use An 'Accent' To Communicate With Their Foe

7:01am May 29, 2021

by Vincent Acovino

In the Amazon rainforest, one species of monkey changed their territorial call to better communicate with a competing species.

Reili Franciscato, pictured in 1997, on the Purus River in Brazil. Franciscato died Wednesday in the Amazon rainforest, shot with an arrow.

Defender Of Amazon Tribes Killed In Brazil

5:08pm September 10, 2020

by Philip Reeves

Rieli Franciscato was a leading expert on uncontacted tribes and was killed while on a mission to shield an isolated indigenous group from a possible hostile encounter with outsiders.

Huge Amazon Wildfires Endanger Our History As Well As Our Air, Archaeologists Say

9:18am November 30, 2019

by Scott Simon

Cristiana Barreto says deforestation threatens to erase evidence of huge, dispersed civilizations, including rock art, ceremonial earthworks and waterways.

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