RIO DE JANEIRO — Sidneia Lusia da Silva was only 12 when she first shocked the sexist fishermen hamlet of Icapui, on the coast of Ceara state, in Northeastern Brazil, by joining her father on his ...

The fishing community of Barra do Mamanguape on Brazil’s northeastern coast used to be a hunting site for manatees. But today, the villagers have turned to ecotourism and are now protecting the ...

Brazil plans to blast rocky rapids on the Tocantins River to carve a shipping lane for soy and corn barges, a move that could ...

PARIS, July 28 (Reuters) - Brazilian swimmer Ana Carolina Vieira has been sent home from the Paris Olympics and her teammate Gabriel Santos was given a warning after they left the athletes' village ...

In Brazil, three Yanomami Indigenous men were shot over the weekend after heavily armed, masked illegal miners stormed a village. One of the Yanomami men died, the other two were hospitalized. The ...