Brazil is well-known as a land of beaches, carnivals, soccer and the Amazon. Its people and their culture are deeply unique, intriguing people from all around the world. Yet, South America’s largest ...

The fifth largest country in the world, Brazil borders every South American country except Chile and Ecuador. Brazil was named by Portuguese colonists after its red brazilwood trees that yielded a ...

More than half of the world’s rangeland is damaged and one-sixth of humanity’s food supply is in danger, according to a new report from the UN Convention to Combat Desertification. The sources of the ...

Brazil’s quilombola people, the descendants of Africans who escaped slavery, have lived in the nation’s vast Amazon and Atlantic rainforests for centuries. Today, the quilombolas number about 1.3 ...