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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — For most of this month, intensive care units across Brazil were at or near capacity amid a crush of COVID-19 patients, and sedatives needed to intubate patients dwindled. The nation’s biggest cemetery had so many corpses to bury that gravediggers worked hours past sundown. But…

A Senate inquiry into the Brazilian government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic kicked off on Tuesday, with lawmakers launching what may be a major headache for President Jair Bolsonaro ahead of next year's election. Nearly 400,000 people have died from COVID-19 in Brazil, the second-highest death toll in the world…

It sounds a lot like extortion: After more than two years denying that runaway deforestation in the Amazon is a real problem, the Brazilian government now says it will protect the rain forest if the United States ponies up. Wednesday, on the eve of Joe Biden’s virtual climate summit with…

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The Biden administration offered new details this morning about the big, virtual climate summit Thursday and Friday and signaled they expect new emissions reduction and climate finance commitments from multiple countries. Driving the news: The administration said 40 heads of state would attend, including Russian President Vladimir Putin and President…

Please try another search EconomyApr 20, 2021 09:55AM ET © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Brazil's Central Bank President Campos speaks at a media statement in Brasilia BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday appointed central bank chief Roberto Campos Neto and seven directors to fulfill their fixed-term mandates on…

SummaryThis month, scientists at the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation (ICMBio), Brazil's lead agency for studying and managing the nation's vast protected areas, had to start to abide by an unwelcome new rule. It gives one of ICMBio's top officials the authority to review all "manuscripts, texts and scientific…

Sao Paulo, Brazil – The Brazilian Senate has launched an inquiry into President Jair Bolsonaro’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, widely condemned by medical experts as one of the world’s worst. The country’s death toll from the disease, the second-highest after the United States, is expected to surpass 360,000 on…

Among the images by the Brazilian photographer Mauricio Lima that accompanied a recent Times article about his country’s COVID-19 crisis, two tell a story that should feel familiar to Americans. In one, supporters of the country’s populist right-wing leader, President Jair Bolsonaro, many of them draped in the colors of the national…