It also mirrors the surge of people living in working-class ... Subnormal agglomerates include not just favelas, but also other terms used in Brazil to describe urban areas with irregular ...

The concept of “subnormality” referred to people’s living conditions ... Homes cover a hill in the poor Rocinha favela of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sept. 30, 2022. After decades of delay ...

Lessons lie in Brazil’s favelas because, in the face of decades of government neglect, many have created internal systems to support one another. When Covid-19 began to spread and people were ...

Brazil has 16.390 million people living in favelas countrywide. The amount represents 8.1 percent of the national population (203M)—in other words, eight out of every 100 people live in these areas.

Brazilian suburbs can experience temperatures up to 46°F higher than nearby neighborhoods. Climate change exacerbates ...

A South African woman shared her eye-opening experience of visiting Brazil's Favela in a TikTok video. The clip sparked mixed ...

People work to eat ... Instituto Locomotiva and the Central Única das Favelas (Cufa), 72% of favela residents in Brazil will run out of money in just one week of social isolation.

Summer was fast approaching — it starts in December in Brazil — and ... with Teto Verde Favela. "Everyone deserves to have access to green roofs, especially people who live in heat islands.

Rio de Janeiro is one of Brazil's largest settlements with ... In Rio, more than 1.2 million people live in the favelas on less than £1 per day. The residents lack access to the most basic ...

Brazil's political turmoil ... I travelled to one of the country's oldest favelas - some say Morro da Providencia is in fact the oldest. We wanted to see what the people who inhabit this slum ...

She is cooking in her small shack in Rocinha, Rio's biggest favela, for people who would probably go hungry without her. Costa runs one of 52 "solidarity kitchens" launched in Brazil by ...