The Latest Breaking News from Brazil

July arabica coffee (KCN25 ) today is up +1.50 (+0.38%), and July ICE robusta coffee (RMN25 ) is down -27 (-0.50%). Coffee prices today are mixed, with arabica posting a 7-week high. Concerns about a smaller Brazil coffee crop are pushing arabica prices higher. On Tuesday, Rabobank predicted Brazil's 2025/26...

With 2024 confirmed as the hottest year on record, pressure is mounting on all countries to step up their climate commitments. In just over six months, world leaders will convene in Brazil for Cop30. Its president, André Corrêa do Lago, has warned the era of empty promises is over, but…

Trees are being cleared for rainforest mega-event – but state governor says a ‘new history’ is under way

Brazilian winger struggles with ‘surreal’ altitude in Bolivia as he reassures fans over injury concerns

Europe is "absolutely vital" to the fight against global warming and its leadership must not waver as climate ambition backslides elsewhere, the CEO of November's COP30 summit in Brazil told AFP. In an interview in Paris, Ana Toni urged the European Union to unite around a strong emissions reduction target…

The region has grappled with dictatorships, coups and inequality. But its democratic spirit remains vital – and offers a lesson for the US

Rodrigo Nunes, a senior lecturer in political theory, explains how despite harsh economic conditions creating fertile ground for ‘entrepreneur culture’, resistance has sprung up among delivery drivers

A labor rights group has alleged that Starbucks sourced coffee from a major Brazilian cooperative whose member farms were cited for keeping workers in slave-like conditions

May NY world sugar #11 (SBK25 ) Thursday closed down -0.02 (-0.11%), and August London ICE white sugar #5 (SWQ25 ) closed up +1.20 (+0.24%). Sugar prices on Thursday settled mixed. Prices were under pressure Thursday on negative carryover from Wednesday when the USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) projected that...

July arabica coffee (KCN25 ) Thursday closed up +13.05 (+3.38%), and May ICE robusta coffee (RMK25 ) closed up +56 (+1.05%). Coffee prices on Thursday extended this week's rally, with arabica climbing to a 4-week high and robusta posting a 1-week high. Thursday's weaker dollar (DXY00 ) was supportive of...

May NY world sugar #11 (SBK25 ) today is down -0.07 (-0.39%), and August London ICE white sugar #5 (SWQ25 ) is down -0.40 (-0.08%). Sugar prices today are moderately lower on negative carryover from Wednesday when the USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) projected that Brazil's 2025/26 sugar production would...