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Brazil Sports
Sep 27, 2025
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4 min read
🦅 John Textor stars in ‘Eagle vs. Eagle’
Love him or hate him, much of the recent success of Brazilian and South American champions Botafogo can be traced back to owner John Textor.
Brazil Climate
Sep 25, 2025
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4 min read
💧 The future of Petrobras
Experts warn about the financial and climactic risk of Petrobras doubling down on fossil fuels, laying out a roadmap for the state-controlled firm to lead Brazil’s energy transition.
Brazil Sports
Sep 20, 2025
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3 min read
🫣 No Brazilian bosses at the World Cup?
For the first time in the tournament’s history, the next World Cup is likely to feature zero Brazilian managers.
Brazil Daily
Sep 19, 2025
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4 min read
🏥 Health, super-sized
SUS turns 35. Supreme Court greenlights Covid-era investigation. Lula’s government can boast of a hefty poverty reduction.
Brazil Climate
Sep 18, 2025
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4 min read
📈 Green mirage?
The ICO2 index on Brazil’s main stock exchange encourages companies to report emissions, but it has some huge blind spots.
Brazil Sports
Sep 13, 2025
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3 min read
🏉 A try to remember
Brazil’s women’s rugby team made history at the recent World Cup in England, and an innovative social project in a São Paulo favela deserves part of the credit.
Brazil Climate
Sep 11, 2025
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3 min read
🪓 ‘Legal’ deforestation
Today is National Cerrado Day, celebrating Brazil’s vast, biodiverse, but often overlooked tropical savanna.
Brazil Sports
Sep 6, 2025
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4 min read
💔 No Taylor, no party?
Taylor Swift's no-show robbed the headlines at a flat São Paulo NFL game, amid rumors Rio could get hosting rights next year.
Brazil Climate
Sep 4, 2025
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1 min read
🌳 Beyond planting trees
The appearance of an endangered Ornate Hawk-Eagle in a fragment of Atlantic Forest has served as a powerful symbol of restoration efforts ongoing in Brazil.
Brazil Sports
Aug 30, 2025
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3 min read
🏈 The NFL’s big Brazil bet
The Chiefs-Chargers showdown isn’t just about Week 1 bragging rights — it’s the league’s first free worldwide YouTube stream, a booming Brazilian fan base, and Globo buying in big.
Brazil Climate
Aug 28, 2025
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4 min read
⛏️ After the raids, before the returns
Federal crackdowns may drive out illegal miners, but without state support, indigenous peoples face renewed invasions — and the lure of fast cash continues to divide communities.
Brazil Sports
Aug 23, 2025
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3 min read
🏄 Brazilian Storm or hurricane?
If Yago Dora wins just one heat of this week’s WSL finals, he will seal Brazil’s eighth men’s surfing world championship in 11 years.
Brazil Climate
Aug 21, 2025
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3 min read
🩸 Blood on the land
The 2024 murder of Pataxó leader Nega Pataxó underscores how the controversial time frame law and the rise of alleged landowner militias are fueling a surge in rural bloodshed.
Brazil Daily
Aug 20, 2025
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3 min read
🦾 A right-wing Megazord
Two right-wing parties form the largest bench in Congress. Boeing can continue snapping up engineers from Embraer. Lula’s popularity is on the rise as food prices cool off.
Brazil Sports
Aug 16, 2025
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4 min read
🤔 Does Brazil actually like football?
A major study on Brazilian football fan preferences and behaviors gives fascinating insight about supporters of the beautiful game in the “land of football.”
Brazil Daily
Aug 15, 2025
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4 min read
⚖️ No backing down
The Supreme Court is on the verge of scheduling Bolsonaro’s criminal trial. Banco do Brasil’s poor profit results. The violence faced by human rights defenders in Brazil.
Brazil Climate
Aug 14, 2025
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4 min read
✒️ Lula tames ‘Devastation Bill’
Despite making a raft of vetoes to the controversial ‘Devastation Bill,’ one risky concession from President Lula is set to considerably weaken Brazil’s environmental licensing framework.
Brazil Climate
Jul 31, 2025
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3 min read
🥬 Climate change is cooking your groceries
Higher temperatures are impacting agriculture, driving grocery costs up. And higher food prices increase public dissatisfaction and cause political disruptions.
Brazil Sports
Jul 26, 2025
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4 min read
✋😛🤚 The Neymar Cost
Neymar’s return to Santos was met with immense expectation, and while the signing has ignited a marketing boom, the substantial cost involved in the deal casts a shadow over his homecoming
Brazil Climate
Jul 24, 2025
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4 min read
📅 25 years of conservation, at risk?
Brazil's national conservation system has turned 25 years old, but it is under threat from persistent political pressures and the ongoing climate emergency.
Brazil Sports
Jul 19, 2025
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4 min read
🍆 The Vampetaço: a very Brazilian protest
Donald Trump and the USTR have been on the receiving end of a very peculiar social media protest from Brazilian users, one that pops up any time anyone criticizes a source of national pride.
Brazil Daily
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Jul 18, 2025
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4 min read
🚨 Bolsonaro deemed a flight risk
Bolsonaro to wear an ankle monitor — while the Lula-Trump feud rages on. The latest debt forecasts from the National Treasury make for grim reading. Ibama and Petrobras open the latest chapter in their tense relationship
Brazil Climate
Jul 17, 2025
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3 min read
⛽ A bridge to transition, or detour?
Biomethane is one of Brazil’s bets for the energy transition, harnessing and capturing this particularly potent greenhouse gas.
Brazil Sports
Jul 12, 2025
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4 min read
🏟️ Maracanazo, the loss that changed Brazil
75 years on, Brazil has long recovered from the 1950 Maracanazo. But what was once a “national tragedy” can now be understood as a crucial moment in Brazilian (and global) football history
Brazil Climate
Jul 10, 2025
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3 min read
🛰️ Deforestation dip? Don’t count on it
Partial data suggests that Brazil’s all-important 2024-25 annual Amazon deforestation figure could show an increase, instead of the promised reduction.
