Brazilian students returned to class this week with a new task: staying away from their smartphones as a new law restricting ...

State of Maranhão, Brazil - January 03, 2025 On January 3, 2025, in Timon, Maranhão, Brazil, @wakyson_ shared a video of their family working together to catch a rat in their home. The video shows the ...

By Mongabay.com Blood Timber, a Mongabay series on illegal logging and cattle ranching in the eastern Brazilian Amazon, has ...

The buritis, or moriche palms, are fighting for their lives in the streambed now lined with scorched earth. For two years now ...

The pools of Lençóis Maranhenses are clear and blue ...

Brazilian water and sanitation company BRK tapped the private sector arms of the IDB Group and French development agency AFD as part of a BRL825 million ($135 million) loan package to expand access to ...

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Monday signed a bill restricting the use of smartphones at school, following a global trend for such limitations. The move will impact students ...

An Olympic kitesurfer heroically rescued a teenage girl from drowning off the shores of a beach in Brazil. Bruno Lobo, who represented Brazil at the Paris 2024 Summer Games, was testing out his ...

The Brazilian states of Rio de Janeiro, Maranhao and Goias have already passed local bills to ban such devices at schools. However, authorities have struggled to enforce these laws. Authorities in ...