Connecting Brazil’s northeast to the Amazon region ... and chestnut trees that he saw on the road, alongside the dried fish and bushmeat one could eat at the stalls set up for passing workers.

Since the road’s opening in 1960, some 600,000 settlers have poured into the area to tap Brazil’s immense riches. Every day long lines of trucks rumble north and south carrying out lumber ...

Traffic jam of commodities-loaded trucks on the BR-163 in the Brazilian Amazon. The road remains a deforestation hotspot even after a buffer zone with protected areas was created. Image courtesy ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Christine Ro is a journalist covering science and development. Ana Carboni is an outlier in Brasília: though she could have a car, she ...

The current Brazilian government expects to have contracts worth R$ 200 billion (US$ 40billion) with the private sector investing in transport infrastructure by end of 2022.

A state of emergency has been declared in southern Brazil after heavy rain caused flooding in coastal cities including Balneário Camboriú and Itapema. Footage shows partially submerged cars ...