As thousands of visiting football fans have discovered during this World Cup, Brazil is a country of immense cultural diversity. Rio has Copacabana, Cristo, the elegant MPB (musica popular brasileira) ...

Belo Horizonte, Brazil's third-largest city, is experiencing an economic boom. Long overshadowed by Rio and São Paulo, it's now attracting significant national and foreign investment, sparking rapid ...

In many low- and middle-income countries, rapid urbanization over past decades has resulted in the growth of informal settlements or “slums.” Several urban redevelopment initiatives have focused on ...

Fly over the "City of Beautiful Horizons" with this sweeping drone footage of Belo Horizonte, the capital of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Soar above the urban sea of skyscrapers nestled in a vast valley, ...

Belo Horizonte, the center of Brazil´s third largest metropolitan area with 6.3 million inhabitants, was chosen as the 2014 National Earth Hour Capital for its “integrated low carbon strategy, guided ...

August 19, 2025 – Climate change is making heat waves more intense and frequent, with urban centers suffering some of the most severe impacts. This comes with escalating threats to human health — ...

Rescue workers pulled a body from the wreckage of a collapsed highway overpass in the Brazilian World Cup host city of Belo Horizonte early on Friday, confirming a second death in an accident that has ...

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Registration is open for a Geothermal Workshop hosted by Vallourec in Belo Horizonte, Brazil to discuss the latest ...

Anvisa has approved the first human trial of Vivaxin, a Brazilian vaccine against vivax malaria, with 48 volunteers in Belo ...