Rio's health workers battle extreme heat to protect most vulnerable
STORY: Amid an intense heat wave in Rio de Janeiro, nurses are visiting some of the city's impoverished neighborhoods to ...
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Cooling green roofs seemed like an impossible dream for Brazil's favelas. Not true!
Low-income favelas would benefit from green roofs but there are two problems: Cost. And a typical design that's too heavy for ...
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Cooling green roofs seemed like an impossible dream for Brazil's favelas. Not true!
Ian Cheibub for NPR It was a sunny September morning in Rio de Janeiro’s Parque Arará favela and volunteers were preparing plants to be placed on Reginaldo Gomes da Silva’s roof. Students ...
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Cooling green roofs seemed like an impossible dream for Brazil's favelas. Not true!
It was a sunny September morning in Rio de Janeiro's Parque Arará favela and volunteers were preparing plants to be placed on Reginaldo Gomes da Silva's roof. Students from both the neighborhood ...
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Police raids leave at least 7 dead in Rio favelas
A large-scale deployment by the Police in various Rio de Janeiro favelas (slums) has left at least seven people dead after gunfights between law enforcement officers and suspected criminals ...
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Former Bariloche official shot in Rio dies
Burlón wound up in the middle of a favela after following GPS directions A 51-year-old Argentine traveler who was mugged and shot in the head in a Rio de Janeiro favela on Dec. 12, 2024, after ...