People from across the world queue for hours to get a video taken on the famous ‘Gateway to Heaven’ rooftop in the heart of Brazil’s most iconic city ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — A line of tourists touch up their makeup before strutting across a rooftop in Rio de Janeiro’s largest favela, posing for a drone as it zooms out to show dramatic aerial views of the ...

Brazilian favelas have grown to occupy an area of 92,300 hectares in the last 40 years, as per data from Mapbiomas’ annual mapping of urbanized areas, released Wednesday (Mar. 4). According to the ...

Ian Cheibub for NPR It was a sunny September morning in Rio de Janeiro’s Parque Arará favela and volunteers were preparing plants to be placed on Reginaldo Gomes da Silva’s roof. Students from both ...

A walk through Rio de Janeiro’s Vidigal favela is a full sensory experience on any given day. The smell of grilled meat mixes with that of exhaust from motorcycle taxis traversing the slum’s corridors ...

High above Rio de Janeiro’s famous beaches, sprawling hillside neighborhoods known as favelas have grown into dense communities housing millions. Many began as improvised settlements built by freed ...

The 2025 United Nations Climate Conference, known as COP30, opens tomorrow in Belem, Brazil. Ahead of the official meetings, community members from Rio's favelas, its lowest-income neighborhoods, have ...