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Like Trump, Bolsonaro is a climate change sceptic. (Photo:AP)

Bolsonaro says, 'Amazon nations should decide region's future'

On Wednesday, Bolsonaro said Germany and France had tried to 'buy' Brazil's sovereignty.

29 Aug 2019 12:00 PM IST

A record number of fires ravaging the Amazon has drawn international outrage because of the rainforests importance to the global environment and prompted Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro to dispatch the military to assist in firefighting. (Photo: AP)

Why the world, and not just Brazil, should care about ravaging Amazon...

Eight out of nine Amazon states have seen an increase, with the largest state of Amazonas seeing a 146 per cent rise.

26 Aug 2019 9:27 AM IST

Leaders of the Group of Seven nations said Sunday they are preparing to help Brazil battle fires burning across the Amazon region and repair the damage even as tens of thousands of soldiers got ready to join the fight against blazes that have caused global alarm. (Photo: File)

G7 leaders vow to help Brazil fight Amazon fires, repair damage

Merkel noted that Bolsonaro is putting 'significant forces' into the effort to save the rainforest.

26 Aug 2019 8:43 AM IST

The thousands of fires burning in the Amazon dont look like the major forest fires of Europe or North America -- instead, they are fuelled mainly by branches, vegetation and other byproducts of deforestation in cleared areas, experts say. (Photo: File)

Why is part of the Amazon burning?

For farmland, or for prairies, brush and weeds alike are heaped together, waiting for the dry season.

24 Aug 2019 2:29 PM IST

Fires in the Amazon have surged 83 percent so far this year compared with the same period a year earlier, government figures show. (Photo: AP)

Brazilian prez admits to farmers setting Amazon forest ablaze, tells...

'These countries that send money, they don't send it out of charity. They send it with aim of interfering with our...

23 Aug 2019 4:31 PM IST

Jair Bolsonaro, waves after voting in the presidential runoff election in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil on Sunday, October 28, 2018. (Photo: AP)

Macron has 'colonialist mentality': Brazil President on Amazon fires

Macron tweeted earlier Thursday that fires burning in the Amazon amount to an international crisis.

23 Aug 2019 12:48 PM IST

The hostage situation began at around 6:30 am local time on Tuesday when the gunman seized the vehicle with 37 people onboard as it was crossing the Rio-Nitero bridge. (Photo: AP)

Brazil: Bus Hijacker shot dead, all hostages released 'unharmed'

The hijacker reportedly freed several people during the siege as police began negotiations with him.

20 Aug 2019 8:19 PM IST

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro (Photo: AP)

'Poop less to save environment,' says Brazil's President Jair...

The Amazon is vital to the exchange of oxygen for carbon dioxide in the atmosphere a check on global warming.

10 Aug 2019 8:38 AM IST

Paris Saint-Germains Neymar is speculated to be joining his old club, Barcelona. Neymar did not display a good form at PSG as it was full of injuries. (Photo: AFP)

'Neymar can take place of Messi' : Edmilson

Former Brazil player Edmilson said that after Barcelona star Lionel Messi will retire, Neymar can take the place of the...

3 Aug 2019 3:48 PM IST

Tensions have risen between France and Brazil after Macron tweeted that the fires burning in the Amazon basin amounted to an international crisis and should be discussed as a top priority at the G7 summit. (Photo: AFP)

Fires still erupting in Amazon; number of blazes in Brazil up 45 pc...

The Amazon is considered particularly important for its absorption of heat-trapping carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

12 Sept 2019 2:05 PM IST

Presidents and ministers from seven Amazon countries met in Colombia on Friday to agree on measures to protect the worlds biggest rainforest, under threat from wildfires and rampant deforestation. (Photo: AFP)

Amazon nations meet in indigenous hut at Colombia over forest...

The summit took place in wake of an international outcry over raging fires that have devastated swaths of Amazon in...

7 Sept 2019 12:02 PM IST

Cafus eldest son Danilo suffered a heart attack while playing football with friends on Wednesday in Sau Paulo. (Photo: Twitter/433)

Son of Brazil legend Cafu dies after suspected heart attack while...

Danilo was soon rushed to the hospital but despite best efforts from the doctors, he passed away.

5 Sept 2019 6:08 PM IST