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‘This is a whale nursery’: The Day of the Right Whale in southern Brazil

Environment

In Brazil, it’s the Day of the Baleia Franca, or Right Whale. It’s one of the largest whale species on the planet. They grow to about 60 feet or one and a half times the size of a school bus. It’s also endangered. But conservation efforts are having an impact.

As winter arrives in the southern hemisphere, Brazilians celebrate ‘June Festivals’

Lifestyle & Belief
A demonstrator dressed in the colors of the Brazilian flag performs in front of a street vendor's towels for sale featuring Brazilian presidential candidates, current President Jair Bolsonaro, center, and former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, in Bra

Lula battles Bolsonaro for chance to defend the poor again in Brazil

A drone sprays insecticide near homes on the outskirts of Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2020. Brazil's health ministry launched a campaign to fight the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which transmits dengue, zika and chikungunya, diseases that can generate

Brazil’s public health workers race to tackle dengue surge

Health & Medicine
Fishing communities line up and come together to pull in the net from the sea.

‘Difficult years’: Brazil’s fishing communities struggle to stay afloat during pandemic 

COVID-19
Health care workers of the public Mobile Emergency Service bring a patient suspected of suffering from COVID-19 to the Base Public Hospital in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday, March 31, 2021. 

Health workers in Brazil fear COVID-19 cases may keep rising: ‘We cannot continue to trivialize these deaths’

COVID-19

As the rate of new infections is starting to slow down in Brazil, health officials brace for a new spike after Easter holiday gatherings over the weekend.