The city aims to reinvent itself with new parks, museums and hotels to host the COP30 climate conference. But what happens ...

By Sara Costantini and Isabella H. de Carvalho According to the latest figures, at least 130 people have died in the ...

With less than two weeks to go before it hosts the COP30 global climate summit, Brazil announced Thursday that forest loss in ...

Officers have been accused of beheading a teenage gangster and hanging his head from a tree after the country's ...

Families of the dead decried what they described as executions by police, while the state government hailed a successful ...

Brazil wants to help developing countries secure more funding for adapting to climate change, the COP30 climate summit ...

Scores were killed in raids in Rio de Janeiro favelas targeting a crime syndicate. The city is about to host major events related to the COP30 climate summit.

A massive police raid on a drug gang embedded in low-income neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro that left at least 119 people dead is drawing protests for excessive force and calls for the Rio de Janeiro’ ...

A decision by the Brazilian environmental agency’s to allow oil exploration near the mouth of the Amazon River is spurring ...

Renata Alves* remembers the judgemental glances people gave her as she walked the narrow alleys of her favela in the southern ...

Nearly 8 in 10 people living in multidimensional poverty – 887 million out of 1.1 billion globally – are directly exposed to ...

A new species of cave-dwelling cricket was discovered in an abandoned mining village in Brazil, according to to a study. Mendes-Carvalho, P. H., Souza-Silva, M., & Ferreira, R. L. (2025). Taxonomy In ...