Brazil

When the Mariana dam burst in 2015 it created Brazil’s worst environmental disaster. The dam had been holding back mining waste so when it burst, a huge wave of toxic liquid burst down a river valley, killing 19 people.

When the Mariana dam burst in 2015 it created Brazil’s worst environmental disaster. The dam had been holding back mining waste so when it burst, a huge wave of toxic liquid burst down a river valley, killing 19 people.

The number of forest fires in Brazil has reached record levels – smothering cities and choking the Amazon.

We spoke to Darren Lewis, assistant editor and football writer at the Daily Mirror, and began by asking him what made Pelé so special as a sportsman.

Landmarks across Brazil have been lit up in memory of the footballing legend Pelé – as the country began three days of national mourning.

It has been a momentous night in Brazil – with an extraordinary political comeback by the left-wing former two-term president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Known as Lula, just three years ago he was in prison, on corruption charges that were later overturned. He beat his rival, the far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro, by the slimmest…

Brazilian voters are heading into an acrimonious run off in the elections after left-wing former President Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva failed to secure the majority he needed to seal a first round victory.

Brazilians are voting today in an election that will have a huge impact on the Amazon. 

President Jair Bolsonaro was accused of being “possessed by the devil” by his rival candidate, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

On the 5th of June this year, a 10-day search for two men began in the deep of the Amazon rainforest.  

The Brazilian embassy in London says two bodies have been found in the search for missing British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira.

At least 20 people have been killed in heavy flooding in northeast Brazil that’s forced thousands of people from their homes.

Dr Miguel Nicolelis of Duke University tells us that the P1 Manaus variant of Covid currently ravaging Brazil is a threat to the world.

Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro is being blamed for his country’s deadliest episode of the pandemic yet – with a highly transmissible variant, and warnings from doctors reporting more young people being admitted to hospitals with the virus than ever before.

To Brazil now, where a record number of Covid deaths – more than 3,700 – were reported yesterday, leaving large parts of its health system now close to collapse.