An examination of Brazil’s immense tannery industry shows how hides from illegally deforested ranches can easily reach the global marketplace. In the United States, much of the demand for Brazilian leather comes from automakers.

Last year, a hacker gave Glenn Greenwald a trove of damning messages between Brazil’s leaders. Some suspected the Russians. The truth was far less boring.

Jane de Oliveira set out to protect the world’s largest rain forest from the corporate interests that are burning it to the ground. Then the armed men showed up.

Rio de Janeiro drug gangs are embracing evangelical Christianity.

Scientists in Brazil are trying to save the giant anteater from a growing threat: roads.

Indigenous people and illegal miners are engaged in a fight that may help decide the future of the planet.

On the front lines of Bolsonaro’s war on the Amazon.

Why carbon credits for forest preservation may be worse than nothing.

A leftist journalist’s bruising crusade against establishment Democrats—and their Russia obsession.

At Inhotim, Bernardo Paz commissioned the Jurassic Park of contemporary art. Then the Brazilian government started investigating him.

Traveling the highway that could make Brazil an economic powerhouse — at the expense of the Amazon.

What the 2016 Summer Games left behind in Rio.

Meet the giant green rock that seduces and destroys.

A young Brazilian couple from “an impoverished northeastern city that’s been described as ground zero of the Zika epidemic” struggle to care for their daughter.

Tropicália was a movement that lasted just short of a year, spanning from Hélio Oiticica’s 1967 art installation of the same name, wherein viewers walked along a tropical sand path only to come face-to-face with a television set, to the debut of a TV show, wherein its constituents buried the movement on-air. But Tropicália’s influence was vast.

Brazilian businessman Zero Freitas has amassed the world’s largest collection of records, the majority of which have never been digitized.

In the throes of an epidemic, researchers investigate how to inoculate against the disease.

Colossal corruption. Political chaos. The worst recession in its history. How a once-booming nation fell.

How PCC, once an inmate soccer team and now Brazil’s most notorious prison gang, coordinated seven days of riots throughout São Paulo using mobile phones.

How three generations of a Brazilian family evangelized for and fought over the sport of Gracie jiu-jitsu as it moved from the Amazon to Hollywood to the UFC.

How an Italian businessman facing fraud charges and a Brazilian politician turned a billion dollar project to build the high speed Rio-São Paulo rail line into a farce.

On the kids who are spiritual leaders before the age of ten.

In Goiânia, a city of 1.3 million in Brazil’s agricultural heartland, one in twenty homeless residents have been murdered in the last two years.

In the late 1960s, a German named Günther Hauck disappeared in Brazil. When he emerged, he was calling himself Tatunca Nara and claimed to be the chief of the Ugha Mongulala, an previously unknown Indian tribe. Since then he has lived in the Amazon, his legend growing. Jacques Cousteau hired him as a guide. An Indiana Jones movie was based on his stories. And three people who made pilgrimages to see him never came home.

Behind the doors of Centaurus, Rio’s most infamous brothel.