Residents of Brazil’s largest favela are using a public square shower to cool off due to ongoing water shortages in the ...

A growing number of tourists and locals are being led into Rio de Janeiro's dangerous favelas by navigation apps, exposing ...

Temps soar in Brazil's summer (from December to March). Low-income favelas would benefit from green roofs but there are two problems: Cost. And a... Cooling green roofs seemed like an impossible ...

Residents of Brazil’s largest favela are using a public square shower to cool off due to ongoing water shortages in the community that have been exacerbated by a heatwave. © 2025 National Post, a ...

It was a sunny September morning in Rio de Janeiro's Parque Arará favela and volunteers were preparing plants to be placed on Reginaldo Gomes da Silva's roof. Students from both the neighborhood ...

Since Brazil stepped up its fight against illegal air transport, drug traffickers who transport drugs from producer countries ...

Around the corner from Brazil's biggest tourist attractions lie gang-guarded areas where 19 people were shot last year.

Brazilian drug gangs are bringing in far more money from fuel and other products than from cocaine trafficking, an expansion ...