SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Brazilian Agriculture Minister Carlos Favaro on Friday welcomed the opportunity to debate vaccination of poultry against bird flu following the country's first confirmed outbreak on a commercial chicken breeding farm last month.

A record fire season in Brazil last year caused the rate of deforestation to accelerate, in a blow to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's pledge to protect the Amazon rainforest, official figures

Brazil’s environmental goals suffered a major setback in May as deforestation in the Amazon surged 92% compared to the same month last year, according to official monitoring data

Brazil, the world's largest Roman Catholic country, saw its Catholic population decline further in 2022 while evangelical Christians and those with no religion continued to rise, census data released on Friday by statistics agency IBGE showed.

Manchester United supporters will have taken great interest in Brazil’s 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifier with Ecuador in the early hours of Friday morning. Not on

For the first time in Brazil’s history, evangelical Christians now account for more than a quarter of the population, according to new census figures Evangelicals are 26.9 percent of Brazilians. Growt

Brazil's Rio Grande do Sul state Agriculture Secretariat on Friday ruled out another suspected bird flu case at a commercial chicken farm in the town of Teutonia, after laboratory test results came back negative.

Brazil's environmental authority has approved one of the final requirements for state-run oil company Petrobras to proceed with oil exploration at the mouth of the Amazon River.

Forest loss reached 371 square miles during the period, the second-highest total for May since the current monitoring system was implemented in 2016.

(Reuters) -Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Friday that growth in the agriculture sector may allow Latin America's largest economy to defy current projections and expand this year more than in 2024,

Asset managers in Brazil are ramping up to take full advantage of a comeback in local equities after long stretches of weak performance pushed investors to flee.