Brazil’s sitting and former presidents, Bolsonaro and da Silva, officially begin their respective presidential campaigns.

The Brazilian president says his country is close to a deal to buy much cheaper diesel from Russia, amid a global energy crisis in the wake of Western sanctions targeting Moscow.

Brazil is at risk of facing a more serious incident than the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, said the head of the country's Electoral Court, Edson Fachin, on Wednesday ahead of the presidential election in October.

A 290-million-year-old fossil forest is discovered by an investigation team in southern Brazil.

Police have found human remains in their search for British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian indigenous expert Bruno Pereira after a suspect confessed to killing them in the Amazon rainforest.

In Rio de Janeiro, the lack of fish due to high levels of water pollution has driven fishermen to go from fishing to cleaning the ocean.

While firefighters search for missing people under thick mud, residents in the Brazilian city of Recife can barely sleep.

At least 106 people have died and 10 are still missing in Brazil, the government said on Tuesday, as heavy rains tore through urban towns in the northeastern part of the country for a sixth consecutive day.

Brazil's leftwing Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva officially starts campaign to unseat right-wing president Jair Bolsonaro.

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon surged to record levels for the month of April, nearly doubling the area of forest removed in that month last year - the previous April record - alarming environmental campaigners.