RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, March 21, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Brazil is home to 12 percent of Earth's freshwater reserves, much of it in the Amazon, but is losing natural surface water as climate change and land ...

A civil police officer co-piloting a helicopter was shot in the head on Thursday while authorities conducted an operation in Rio de Janeiro, authorities said. The officer was ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A son of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro will step down from Congress and relocate to the U.S ...

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As a big-wave surfer, the Brazilian adrenaline junkie set records at the highest surf break on Earth. She’s still committed to the ocean—now, though, she’s dedicating herself to helping keep it clean ...

A New Chapter in Brazil's Green Energy Drive The Port of Açu in northern Rio de Janeiro is making waves in the push for clean ...

Braskem S.A. (NYSE:BAK) also entered a 30-year partnership with Aegea Saneamento e Participações S.A. to supply reused water ...

Rio de Janeiro is generally not a city that people have at the top of their travel bucket list. It does have a reputation as ...

Five cities in southern Brazil have suspended classes due to the region’s heat wave. Temperatures in some places have risen ...

Just a few minutes from the school parades in Rio de Janeiro's Sambadrome ... are left strewn across the floor. Glasses of water, beer cans, cigarette butts by the thousands ...

(AP Photo/Bruna Prado) Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] RIO DE JANEIRO (AP ... to position their carts loaded up with beer and water to quench the thirst of the ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — It’s that time of year in Rio de Janeiro ... to position their carts loaded up with beer and water to quench the thirst of the revelers. The street parties are where you put on a ...