Clique aqui para Português Students currently occupying public high schools across Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Ceará took to the streets on the morning of May 4 in an act of solidarity. Street protests were staged […]
Clique aqui para Português A community organization in the West Zone neighborhood of Bangu is working with young people, children and families to combine cultural events, classes and activities and citizenship discussions and put West Zone […]
In our last article on rising temperatures in Rio de Janeiro, we discussed heat islands and the unequal distribution of extreme heat throughout the metropolitan area. Recently, Rio de Janeiro gained notoriety as the Latin American city that will be […]
Clique aqui para Português For the original article in Portuguese by Maria Luisa Barros published in O Dia click here. The average temperature will rise one degree Celsius by 2020. Heat waves and floods will cause […]
Clique aqui para Português Summer is approaching in Brazil and with it come searing temperatures upwards of 40 degrees Celsius. However, not all areas in Rio de Janeiro’s metropolitan region will experience this heat to […]