The origins of whaling are highly debated. Now, some of the earliest signs of active whale hunting have appeared somewhere unexpected: southern Brazil.

The Belo Monte hydropower plant in the Brazilian Amazon, one of the world’s largest, was designed to channel water from the ...

MILAN (AP) — When Lucas Pinheiro Braathen tells people in Brazil that he represents the country in Alpine skiing, he says ...

No one can evade death forever, but some people are mysteriously good at it. While the average human life lasts about seven ...

With just months to go before the presidential election, wearing a particular brand of flip-flops or a certain football shirt ...

By Luciana Magalhaes and Paula Laier SAO PAULO, Jan 26 (Reuters) - The potential sale of Brazilian aluminium producer ...

Lucas Pinheiro Braathen represents Brazil in alpine skiing, and he has a chance to win South America's first Winter Olympics ...

Hundreds of Indigenous people have been protesting at a Cargill facility in Santarem, Brazil, against a decree signed in August by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Chart: The Economist Brazil holds nearly a quarter of the world’s known deposits of rare earths, second only to China (see chart). Besides prime geology, the country boasts a sturdy extractive ...

The people at the center of this discovery are known as the Sambaqui. For nearly 7,000 years, these groups lived along the ...

This video explains why Brazil’s population is heavily concentrated along the coast and major cities, and why the interior remains sparsely populated. Learn the economic, geographic, and ...

Clad in florals and puffing on a cigarette, Tânia Maria has captivated audiences with a striking, if brief, performance in “The Secret Agent,” Brazil’s latest Oscar nominee.