Electricity consumption in Brazil rose by 7.8 per cent in 2010, led by a surge in demand from the nation's booming industrial consumers. [more]

Foreign investors are still seeing Brazil as one of the best nations in which to put their money, a survey by financial services firm, KPMG, has shown. [more]

The International Union of Forest Research Organisations (IUFRO) has called on the UN to broaden its forest protection efforts beyond its focus on using them to fight climate change. [more]

Brazil's Finance Ministry has predicted that the national economy will grow by five per cent in 2011. [more]

Steelmakers in Brazil have said that production in the ore-rich area around Rio de Janeiro has been unaffected by the devastating landslide and floods that have claimed the lives of hundreds of people in the region. [more]

Brazilian state oil company, Petrobras, has announced that its gasoline and jet fuel sales jumped by 17.8 per cent in 2010, owing to the country's increasingly demanding economic expansion. [more]

Tyneside business leaders are being invited to take part in a market visit to Brazil in order to learn about the investment opportunities available in the South American nation. [more]

The area of planted forests in Brazil increased by more than 200,000 hectares in 2008 and 2009, according to a recently published report from the South American nation's Forest Service. [more]

A Brazilian forestry academic has created a model that could restore areas of forest that have been stripped and degraded by mining processes. [more]

Brazil's new president, Dilma Rousseff, is make forging greater ties with the world's other emerging a major part of her presidency. [more]