BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil’s Federal Prosecutor’s Office is suing the giant mining company Vale, the Brazilian government and the Amazon state of Para over heavy metal contamination in the bodies ...

A heavy metal band is calling it quits after four decades of music. Sepultura announced its final concert will take place Nov. 7 at the Mercado Livre Arena Pacaembu in São Paulo, Brazil. The show will ...

Bats play a crucial role in tropical regions as pollinators, seed dispersers and agricultural pest controllers. But they are exposed to a wide range of threats, pollution among them. Two recent papers ...

FILE - An activist covered in mud poses with a sign that reads Vale assassin during a demonstration in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Feb. 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano ...