With almost half of Brazilians living in inadequate housing and a rapidly growing number of slums called favelas, the ...

A walk through Rio de Janeiro’s Vidigal favela is a full sensory experience on any given day. The smell of grilled meat mixes with that of exhaust from motorcycle taxis traversing the slum’s corridors ...

By Bruna Cabral RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan 19 (Reuters) - Michele Campos feels like crying every summer when temperatures in Rio de ...

As Brazil prepares to host COP30, residents of Rio de Janeiro's favelas are mobilizing to make sure the voices of the world's informal settlements aren't left out of global climate talks. The 2025 ...

Paraisópolis, one of São Paulo’s largest favelas, rises up the hillside in a dense, improvised sprawl. Homes stand shoulder to shoulder, some painted in bright colors, others left in bare brick.

A woman sitting in the lotus position wears a shirt that reads in Portuguese, "Be strong like a mother from the outskirts" while meditating during a Transformation Project yoga class in the Rocinha ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Dozens of Brazilian ...