RIO DE JANEIRO — After decades of delay and pressure, Brazil announced Tuesday that it will henceforth use “favelas and urban communities” to categorize thousands of poor, urban neighborhoods, instead ...

They are very internet savvy, very cell phone savvy. Everyone has a cell phone. Favelas in Rio de Janeiro goes back 150 years to Brazil's wars, bloody conflicts, including an international war with ...

It was a sunny September morning in Rio de Janeiro's Parque Arará favela and volunteers were preparing plants to be placed on Reginaldo Gomes da Silva's roof. Students from both the neighborhood ...

Show more Show less A Military Police officer patrols a street in the Cidade de Deus (City of God) favela inRio de Janeiro Military Police patrol a street in the Cidade de Deus (City of God) favela in ...

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NPR is in Paris for the 2024 Summer Olympics. For more of our coverage from the Games, head to our latest updates. In America, all eyes were on gymnast Simone Biles as she won the gold medal in the ...

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... Cooling green roofs seemed like an impossible dream ...