Brazil’s severe and prolonged drought has been fueled by a knot of factors. An intense El Niño, a natural climate pattern, brought warmer and drier weather to the region last year and into 2024.

MANAUS, Brazil — Dark clouds rumble over the tiny Amazon River community of Nossa Senhora do Livramento. After two years of devastating drought, you might think that residents in this parched ...

Brazil is in the grip of its worst drought on record, Brazil’s Center for Natural Disaster Monitoring and Alerts said this month, a drought that has parched at least 59 percent of Latin America ...

Staples including wheat, beef and coffee are all being affected by the lack of rainfall. In some cases, prices are climbing ...

BRASILIA, Brazil — Brazil is enduring its worst drought since nationwide measurements began over seven decades ago, with 59% of the country under stress — an area roughly half the size of the U.S.

Historic forest fires in Brazil last year scorched through an area larger than the size of Italy, recording a burned area ...

A widespread drought in Brazil has halted the transport of grains through the Madeira river, an important northern waterway linking key croplands with the country's ports, regional port terminals ...

Brazil's harvest season that ends this month was virtually flat from last year, and exports surged, but the ongoing drought is already complicating the start of the 2025/2026 season, ...

Historically, these options might have been pricier, but not after Brazil's drought. That's unlike cocoa, the majority of which grows in just two West African countries, Ghana and the Ivory Coast.

Brazil's central bank on Wednesday raised its benchmark interest rate by 0.25 points to 15 percent. This is its seventh ...

Brazil is in the grip of its worst drought on record, Brazil’s Center for Natural Disaster Monitoring and Alerts said this month, a drought that has parched at least 59 percent of Latin America ...

Brazil drought hits coffee farms and threatens to push prices even higher. Posted: September 20, 2024 | Last updated: September 20, 2024. Coffee growers in Brazil’s Sao Paulo state are assessing ...