Aerial view after flooding caused by heavy rains in Mucum, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil. New rains in waterlogged southern Brazil are expected to be heaviest between Sunday and Monday, authorities have warned, bringing fresh misery to victims of flooding that has killed 136 people so far. State authorities warned late Saturday of the
The environment minister blamed the forest fires on ‘criminals’ clearing land for farming. Manaus, the largest city in Brazil’s Amazonas state, has for days been engulfed by a toxic cloud of smoke from forest fires lit by what the government labeled “criminals”. The city of nearly two million people has been forced to cancel some
Credit: CC0 Public Domain The Sao Paulo state government decided this week to largely replace textbooks with e-books in high schools, sparking a row in Brazil, where education experts and publishers warned the move could have negative consequences. Starting next year, students aged 14 and over at 5,300 schools across Brazil’s most populous state will