Articles tagged "brazil"

Perhaps flooding forests with giant dams doesn't pay off as much as we once thought.

Unfortunately for C. speratus, curling into a ball isn't going to protect it from its most existential threat.

And the world just got a little weirder.

Brazilian police are cracking down on drugs and crime in the run up to the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Summer Olympic Games. The program stands to forever alter Rio's famed slums. Photographer Raphael Fabrés is documenting the complicated effort.

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The last survey of such complete proportions came way back in the 70s.

Hanging out with Brazil's OG modernist architect.

Since the oil shocks of the '70s, Brazil has been home to a carnival of renewable energy initiatives that now generate a whopping 85 percent of the country's power. At Santa Rita do Sapucaí prison, inmates are contributing to the effort by riding sta…

You don't need the latest in aerial drone imaging specs to spy the grim, if entirely logical, thread coursing through the latest report issued by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.The "2012 World Drug Report":http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/…

For as long as I can remember -- thanks to haunting National Geographic spreads and the like -- there's been a small, gnawing bit of worry about the rapid pace of deforestation of the world's rainforests. Sure, it's one thing to try to make smart pur…

Tecnobrega, the Amazon's Flashing Answer to House Music, is Part Pirates, Part Space Ships

The Amazon Rainforest covers 2.1 million square miles in South America, spanning territory owned by nine different countries. It's what people think of when they talk about the 'world's lungs,' and it hosts an incredibly important concentration of th…

h5. _Revisiting our 2009 documentary on the 104-year-old OG of modern architecture._ In the 1950s, Brazil decided it would be a perfectly reasonable idea to move the capital to the center of the country's interior plateau (read: nowhere). To facil…