Brazil

Humans are both the cause and at risk of annihilation in the Earth's sixth mass extinction event.

Environmentalists protest that the new port terminal and its logistical and industrial zone will hurt an ecological corridor that connects two natural protected areas.

The clashes were the result of violent acts by the military police against public servants, mostly teachers of the state of Parana.

Landless rural workers occupy farms in Brazil to fulfill the promises of a people's agrarian reform.

The Atlantic ocean is Brazil's last frontier to the east.

Indigenous people were protesting a proposed constitutional amendment they fear could lead to corporate land grabs.

Civil unrest has led to the call for military intervention by the more reactionary sectors of the population.

Brazil has the world's fourth-largest prison population. Like the US, Brazil is rapidly advancing in the privatization of its incarceration system.

Indigenous peoples did something the Brazilian government had refused.

Jakarewyj, a member of the Awu00e1 tribe, has contracted flu and a severe respiratory disease after her group was “surrounded by loggers.”