Brazil's port city of Belem will open its doors to 50,000 participants for the COP30 conference on climate change from ...

Organizers are hoping this year's Conference of Parties — known as COP30 — will yield action to advance the many unmet ...

Robert Muggah, an expert in organised crime in Brazil, explains the origins of the Commando Vermehlo, the gang targeted in a ...

National Geographic photographer Rena Effendi visited Brazil to document how one family farm is working with nature to ...

Two years after the murder of popular Brazilian councilwoman Marielle Franco, her partner Monica Benicio has also won a ...

Andre Dread was on his rounds handing out food parcels to poor families in City of God, one of Brazil's most notorious slums, in May when the familiar sound of gunfire from a police raid sent him ...

Zohran Mamdani’s rent freeze, free transit, and public grocery plans test socialism’s urban promise and expose capitalism’s ...

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Few outsiders have seen what happens inside Brazil’s favelas neighborhoods where crime, poverty, and fear collide. This report follows a military police unit as they patrol the slums of São Paulo, ...

Operation Containment" in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, aimed to disrupt the criminal network Comando Vermelho, but with 132 dead ...

Here's everything you need to know about COP30 - from why it's proving controversial, to who's attending and what will be on ...

The Madeira River, one of the Amazon’s largest tributaries, flows from the Andes through Bolivia into northern Brazil before ...