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After months of rehabilitation from Brazil’s Associacao R3 Animal group, 13 Magellanic penguins were released back into the wild on Friday – and the moment was captured on camera. The semi-aquatic birds were rescued after being found in severely weakened conditions during their migration season. It isn’t uncommon for many to become stranded in this...

Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro was taken into federal police custody on Saturday, before a planned supporters’ vigil near his home, ending months of house arrest as he appeals a Supreme Court conviction for plotting a coup. The Supreme Court ordered detention in a court decision, citing the risk that encamped supporters would hamper police monitoring of Bolsonaro’s...

The COP30 Conference is now underway in Brazil. SFU Political Science professor Radoslav Dimitrov talks about how difficult it is to get world leaders together to agree on climate change protocols.

A powerful tornado struck Brazil’s Paraná State on Friday, killing at least six people and causing extensive damage throughout the region.

Julie Segal, Senior Program Manager of Climate Finance at Environmental Defence Canada, joins Global’s Nivrita Ganguly to discuss the climate agreement arrived at by delegates at COP30 Brazil after extended negotiations.

United Nations climate talks in Brazil have reached an agreement to deliver more money to the countries hit hardest by climate change. But the deal does not include an explicit roadmap to phase out fossil fuels. Vincent McAviney reports on the contentious negotiations and why some are calling it a failed agreement.

The hunt continues for a bear that attacked a group of schoolchildren and teachers on Thursday during a field trip in the remote northern B.C. community of Bella Coola. Despite his absence from this year’s G20 summit in South Africa, U.S. President Donald Trump dominated the first day of the two-day summit after leaders learned...

University of Waterloo’s Managing Director of Climate Science Anabela Bonada, joined Global’s Nivrita Ganguly to discuss the key issues in focus at this year’s COP30 climate conference in Belém, Brazil.

Dozens of Indigenous protesters blockaded the front entrance of the COP30 summit in Brazil on Friday, forcing delegates to enter through a side door. Protesters are demanding the government halt all development projects in the Amazon rainforest, including the construction of a new railway for transporting mining and agricultural products.

A B.C. environmental group is claiming many of our old-growth trees are going up in smoke to generate electricity overseas. A UK company says it’s only using wood waste for carbon-neutral power generation. But as Paul Johnson reports, that claim is being disputed at the COP30 summit in Brazil.

Julie Segal, Senior Program Manager of Climate Finance at Environmental Defence Climate, joins Global’s Nivrita Ganguly from Belém to discuss Canada’s climate goals ahead of this year’s COP30 meeting in Brazil.

Brazil sentenced former President Jair Bolsonaro to over 27 years in prison after being convicted of plotting a coup to remain in power after losing the 2022 election.

Protests erupted around the world on Friday against Israel’s interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla, which was carrying aid for Gaza. Demonstrators in countries such as Italy, Spain, Brazil, the United States, and Israel took to the streets, chanting slogans like “Free Free Palestine” to show their support for the Global Sumud Flotilla and the people...

A combination of extreme heat and low humidity triggered fires across a Florida Paulista sugarcane field last Thursday in Brazil. Though local fire emergency crews eventually managed to get the blaze under control, winds briefly whipped up a fierce fire swirl in the São Paulo municipality – and it happened to be caught on camera....

A priceless piece of Canadian motorsport history has been stolen from the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame. The helmet that late, Maple Ridge IndyCar driver Greg Moore wore in his victory at the 1998 Rio-400 in Brazil has been taken.

Marina Lacerda spoke for the first time publicly Wednesday about the abuse she suffered at the hands of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, saying what started out as a “dream job” to earn quick money for her family as a teenager quickly descended into a nightmare. Lacerda, an immigrant from Brazil, and other survivors gathered...

Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro has been ordered to wear an ankle monitor, he told reporters after leaving a police station in Brasilia on Friday. “I’ve never thought of leaving Brazil,” he added.

U.S. President Donald Trump launched his global tariff assault into overdrive on Wednesday, announcing a 50 per cent duty on goods from Brazil, to start on August 1. Trump’s Brazil tariff order came in a letter to Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva that vented anger over what he called the “witch hunt” trial...

There’s a new face on the Saint John Police Force, and her path to the badge is unlike most. She moved from Brazil with a suitcase and a heart full of dreams in 2020. She spoke little English and had no local connections, but today Const. Keyla Nerys serves the community that helped her build...

Eight people were killed after a hot-air balloon carrying 21 passengers, including the pilot, crashed on Saturday in Brazil’s southern state of Santa Catarina, state officials said. The tourism balloon caught fire during the flight in the early morning hours, crashing in a forest area in the city of Praia Grande, according to the state...