Deforestation has long been a challenge for Brazil, where decades of over-farming and logging operations have taken a toll and seriously threatened the Amazon rainforest and the Indigenous ...

Time is of the essence for a Brazilian neuroscientist who wants to study whale and dolphin brains before the brains decompose in the heat.

Vik Muniz, the Brazilian conceptual artist, has made regular trips to Salvador, a port city that is the capital of the country’s Bahia region. He and his wife Malu Barretto, who are based in Rio de ...