Brazil is the fourth largest market globally for LEED - or Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, a rating system devised by the United States Green Building Council that certifies buildings ...

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 typical design that's too heavy for a favela home.

VideoIn Brazil, where futebol fanaticism is only matched by the extraordinary lengths the game's leaders will go to steal money, two young Brazilians are chasing down a different kind of green.

Green roofs absorb heat and act as insulators for buildings, reducing the energy needed to provide cooling and heating, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

"The building is improving the quality of life of the kids," award winner Gustavo Utrabo, an architect at Aleph Zero, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by telephone from Brazil. The green ...

Brazil’s “green building” industry will expand in the coming years, spurred by construction of low-impact venues to be used in the 2016 Olympics venues, an expert on environmental construction said in ...

Brazilian electricity company Matrix Energia has completed Brazil’s first green debentures issuance worth $100m Brazilian reais ($17.9m) to build 224 megawatt-hours (MWh) of battery energy ...

Supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Sunday stormed Brazil’s government buildings in a stunning echo of the US's Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

Brazil’s Green Hell is snapping out of its centuries-old snooze. New roads are slashing into the interior, buildings are sprouting up, ...

Rioters ransacked government buildings in Brazil's capital Brasilia. They appeared to be seeking military intervention to restore far-right ex-President Jair Bolsonaro. Authorities in Brazil have ...