José Henrique Bortoluci’s What Is Mine tells the story of his country’s laborers, like his father, who built its infrastructure, and in turn its fractious politics. While tending to his sick father as ...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's government on Wednesday unveiled measures to lure up to $133 billion reais ($66 billion) in private investment for road and rail projects, part of a new state-led effort ...

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) – Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff announced a nearly $66 billion investment package on Wednesday to beef up the nation’s ailing road and rail systems, part of efforts to solve ...

According to CNN Brazil, that’s the plan for connecting Manaus and Ecuador. If done by paved roads, it would require deforestation of pristine areas of the Brazilian Amazon, but the federal government ...

Unallocated public areas account for 28% of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, and the destruction of these lands keeps rising even as rates plummet across other parts of the rainforest. To tackle ...