As European clubs tightened their purse strings over the January window, Brazilian sides broke transfer records again and again. But is this betting-fuelled boom sustainable?
Though it covers nearly half of Brazil’s territory and is home to the major urban centers of Manaus and Belém, the North region is sorely underrepresented in football.
Long a niche practice confined mainly to Japanese immigrant communities, baseball in Brazil has matured into an all-inclusive sport, and is reaping the rewards.
While the weather in parts of the country is naturally harder to predict, aging and obsolete technology led to subpar forecasting in Brazil. Thanks to a new supercomputer, that may be about to change.
A new report highlights the consistent growth of the women’s game in Brazil, but there are structural bottlenecks that are still holding the sport back.
Microplastics appear to be everywhere these days, but a recent finding from Brazilian researchers found these tiny particles in a remote protected area of the Amazon forest.
Once an environmental liability, açaí waste is being turned into biomass fuel and construction material — cutting emissions in one of the world’s hardest-to-clean industries.
European opposition to the EU-Mercosur trade deal has been declared in environmental terms, but are the arguments valid? Or do they stray into protectionism?
Plans to privatize parts of crucial Amazon tributaries could bring logistics gains, but also involve exploding a riverbed rock formation and casting the livelihoods of local communities into doubt.
🎙️ Podcast: What needs repair in Brazil's public sector machine?
Brazil's special secretary for state transformation discusses the reform proposals coming from the lower house, and the Lula administration's approach.
Launched at COP30, the Amazon Atlantic Trail is the largest continuously signaled trail in Latin America — and could serve as a conservation blueprint for other threatened regions.
Tonight’s Copa Libertadores final between Palmeiras and Flamengo has been billed as the biggest match between two Brazilian clubs in history, at least in the post-Pelé era.
A police operation goes after chronic tax debtor Refit. Congress strikes down Lula’s environmental licensing vetoes, just days after COP30. Brazil’s hamstrung securities regulator is about to lose another member.
