Brazil’s federal police have created a diagram to illustrate their conception of the leadership structure of a “gang” of politicians accused of involvement in a massive graft scheme. And they put the ...

Brazil is known for many beauties, but the government wants to keep the poorer locations hidden as uncharted territories, at least in its maps. The dense working-class neighborhoods that are often ...

New maps detail how soybean and other farmers are spreading into the Amazon, the world's biggest rainforest, the government's National Statistics Office (IBGE) said. In a statement on Thursday, it ...

Thousands of Indigenous, quilombola, and traditional communities live in the Cerrado, the world’s most biodiverse tropical savanna. But many lack access to official titles and deeds, and are not ...

But a group of enterprising friends recently decided to tackle the problem starting in Brazil's largest favela, Rocinha, using good old pen and paper. As Vice Motherboard explains in an article ...

Environmental authorities approved what was then the largest wind farm in Brazil’s Ceará state in 2002 without assessing its socioenvironmental impact, including on the local fishing community and the ...