The 2025 United Nations Climate Conference, known as COP30, opens tomorrow in Belem, Brazil. Ahead of the official meetings, community members from Rio's favelas, its lowest-income neighborhoods, have ...
Demand for martial arts classes grows as women face increase in gender-based attacks ...
Ian Cheibub for NPR 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 ...
When the First Capital Command (Primeiro Comando da Capital – PCC) took over the brightly-colored hillside favelas in São Paulo, Brazil’s most powerful gang also brought the criminal underworld under ...
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - For residents of Morro da Babilonia, one of Rio de Janeiro's underdeveloped 'favela' neighborhoods, geopolitics rarely enters daily conversation, but as the city readies to ...
The study reveals the coexistence of hunger and overweight among children, a phenomenon known as the double burden of ...
RIO DE JANEIRO — Families of the scores of people killed in a deadly gang raid by Rio de Janeiro police began burying the dead on Thursday, with residents left reeling by the scenes of carnage and ...
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 dream ...
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