Brazil holds the longest coastline in the world, extending for around 8,000 kilometers. With this great extension, tourists can easily find several beaches and islands in Brazil, making this Latin ...

There is an island off the coast of Brazil, in the Atlantic Ocean, where humans are banned. Why? Because it is home to thousands of highly venomous snakes that rule the land. Ilha da Queimada ...

MANGARATIBA, Brazil -- All the locals knew the island just west of Rio de Janeiro was teeming with cats. They left food and even brought tourists. Then the coronavirus pandemic hit, and human support ...

Brazil’s Snake Island, officially Ilha da Queimada Grande, is often imagined as a realm of peril, yet its significance goes far beyond danger. This remote island is an ecological gem, home to some of ...

ILHA FURTADA, Brazil -- Eduardo Mayhe Ferreira has heard the stories for years. There was an island off Brazil's southeastern coastline that looked deserted but wasn't. Hidden within the dense tree ...

On a small island off the coast of Brazil, a rare bird native to North America settled in, trading the Northern Hemisphere's harsh winter for the Southern Hemisphere's summer. Catharus fuscescens, ...

Europeans first reached Brazil in 1500, but for centuries before that any decent mapmaker knew where Brazil was. It was an island a hundred or so miles west of Ireland… and this cartographic phantom ...

Across Brazil, including the water rich Amazon region, access to safe drinking water remains a challenge and rainwater harvesting has gained credibility as a technological solution. Complementing a ...

On a remote island in Brazil, the sun began to set, and a color-changing creature began its nightly transformation. Its skin shifted hues, its pattern morphed but its green bones stayed the same.

Marajó Island in northern Brazil uses Asian water buffaloes for policing due to its swampy, flood-prone terrain where vehicles and horses struggle. The specially trained “Buffalo Soldiers” can reach ...

A North American species of thrush called a veery was documented for the first time on Marambaia Island in Brazil, a study said. Vinicius Cainelli via Unsplash On a small island off the coast of ...