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Brazil Prepares for a World Cup to Beat Homelessness
While the world's attention affixes to the FIFA World Cup, Brazil and the City of Rio are preparing for the 8th annual World Cup...
Brazil and U.S. Agree to Cooperate in Rainforest Pact
The United States and Brazil signed a memorandum of understanding to work together to slash greenhouse gas emissions from tropical deforestation, one of...
Brazil Justice Rules for US Dad in Custody Battle
A five year court battle to retrieve his son appears to be over for a New York man. Brazil's chief justice on Tuesday...
Socialite’s School Brings Hope To Brazilian Slum
Poverty and violence are part of every day life for children living in Brazil's slums. But a Rio de Janeiro socialite is fighting...
Theologians Converge on Brazil to Envision a Sustainable World
Theologians from around the world are converging on Belém, near the mouth of the Amazon River in northeast Brazil, to develop a theology for...
Brazil Commits to Cut Amazon Destruction by 70 Percent
Brazil announced on Monday a plan to cut destruction of its Amazon rain forest by more than half over the next 10 years, the...
Brazil Gives 3.8M Acres in Amazon Rain Forest to Indigenous People
"Brazil decreed a new 3.8 million acre (1.5M hectare) Indian reservation Friday in the heart of the Amazon rainforest's logging frontier. The land had...
Brazilians Promote Good News ‘Day of Light’ March 9
On March 9th, if you see a newpaper or magazine with any good news published, buy it. This is The Day of Light, a...
Brazil to Crack Down on Recent Rise in Deforestation
Brazil announced it will send police and environmental agents to the rainforest in an emergency move aimed at stopping an alarming rise in deforestation...
A Dollar a Day Transforms Teen Pen Pals in U.S. and Brazil
Imagine the thrill. You're an American teen, planting your toes into the sands of Brazil for the first time. Imagine total immersion into a...
Brazil Nuts Transforming Poor Villages, Forest Preservation
"Help is at hand for the Amazon rainforest and Brazil's poverty-stricken rural people - courtesy of the country's famous native nut. Small communities are...
Brazil Unveils New Technology to Curb Logging
Reuters reports on Brazil's attempt to stop illegal logging. Their environment minister Friday "unveiled an electronic registry for the transport and storage of all...
Brazil Creates Buffer Zone Around Precious Coral Reefs
Brazil enacted protections for the coral reefs, which are the biologically richest in the South Atlantic. A buffer zone was created around the...
Brazil Fueling 1 Million Cars on Sugarcane
Latin America’s largest country, Brazil, is the world’s biggest producer of bio-ethanol and 1 million Brazilian cars already run on the fuel made from...
First Brazilian in Space
Brazil's first astronaut docked at the International Space Station. Marcos Pontes and his American and Russian crewmates arrived in their Soyuz spacecraft, while in...
Cultivating a ‘Good Heart’ Through Meditation: A Brazilian Research Study
(Northeastern Brazil) In Fortaleza, a town of 2.5 million people, the poor and the rich will meet once a week to cultivate a "good...
Brazil Expands Amazon Protection as Global Environmental Conference Starts
CURITIBA, Brazil — Brazil announced plans to expand protection of the Amazon rain forest at the opening of 11-day Global Environmental Conference. Brazil's...
A “Point of Light” in Brazil’s Jungle; a Nurse is Honored for Her Work
Doctors Without Borders not only won the 1999 Nobel Peace Prize, but Kathleen Mahoney, one of its volunteers, a graduate nursing student at the...
Good News in History, November 15
7 years ago, Pakistani archeologists revealed to the world the finished excavations of the Bhamala Stupa, one of the oldest in the world, and...
The Azores Protects Whales and Corals with Marine Preserve as Big as Virginia and Georgia Combined
A massive new marine protected area (MPA) has been established in the eastern Atlantic off the coast of the Azores.
Covering 287,000 square kilometers of...