An ambitious ‘refaunation’ project is bringing the much-loved birds and other lost species back to the city’s national park
Images of the iconic blue-and-yellow macaw can be spotted all over Rio de Ja…
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Eight arrested for ‘brutal’ attack on capybara in Brazil ⊖⊖
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In incident filmed by security cameras in Rio de Janeiro, group of attackers beat animal with sticks and iron bars
Police in Rio de Janeiro have arrested eight people for brutally beating a capybara –…
25 days ago
‘Agriculture of life’: the Rio families growing bananas to protect the world’s largest urban forest ○
In the middle of the city, traditional growers blend crops with native species to preserve Pedra Branca state park’s biodiversity
The sound of the scythes wielded by brothers Jorge and Ubirajara Cardi…
26 days ago
At least eight killed as Brazilian police carry out lethal favela raid ⊖
Brazilian police say that raid in Rio de Janeiro targeted a leader of Red Command, a powerful criminal group.
44 days ago
The venue from £28BILLION Beijing Games used as a vegetable patch, crumbling hotels in Sarajevo and Rio de Janeiro's eerie empty arenas - the shameful abandonment of Olympics sites ⊖
History is littered with examples of millions being spent to host the summer or winter Games, only for the stadiums, courts and Olympic villages to fall into disrepair.
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Brazilian politician brothers convicted of ordering murder of Rio city councillor ⊖⊖
João Francisco Inácio Brazão and Domingos Inácio Brazão sentenced for murder of Marielle Franco, a gay Black woman and rising political star
Two influential Brazilian politician brothers have been co…
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Brazilian politicians accused of ordering Marielle Franco murder go on trial ⊖⊖
Chiquinho and Domingos Brazão accused of ordering shooting of Rio councillor and her driver in 2018
Brazil’s supreme court has opened the trial of politicians accused of ordering the 2018 murder of Ri…
Will a Trump Tower finally rise in Australia – or is this more flash and bluster on the Gold Coast glitter strip? ⊕
Previous plans for a Trump Tower in Queensland almost 20 years ago went the way of other imagined edifices in Rio, Batumi and Tijuana
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‘There has to be glitter’: can the Rio carnival give up its love of beach-polluting microplastics? ⊕⊕
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A bill banning the sale and use of plastic and metallic glitter has yet to go through in Brazil as the capital’s sandy shores bear cost of carnival’s shine
Whether it is embellishing elaborate costume…
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Rio de Janeiro carnival 2026 – in pictures ⊕
Rio de Janeiro’s carnival is full of contrasts: wealth brushes up against poverty, joyful abandon unfolds alongside hard labour. Its visual expression also explores notions of power. In a country wit…