Hot weather is not just affecting humans, but insects like mosquitoes too. Population of mosquitoes has declined in 2016 due to lack of rain. Asian tiger mosquito, which is found to be spreading deadly Zika virus, is small, but steady in number.

According to a long-awaited analysis, microcephaly screening for Zika problems in infants could miss a few birth defects. A group from Brazil reported lately that the analysis, done on the first 1,500 suspected cases in Brazil, has disclosed instances of brain damage in newborns with usual head circumference.

On Tuesday, senior Facebook executive Diego Dzodan - the company's VP for Latin America - was arrested in Sao Paulo, Brazil, because of a dispute between Facebook's WhatsApp instant-messaging subsidiary and the Brazilian police over a request for access to data in connection with a drug investigation.

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature has listed the Brazilian three-banded armadillo as one of the many species under threat worldwide. Brazil's population of the three-banded armadillo is armadillo species endemic to Brazil, where it is known as tatu-bola.

There is no denying that FIFA World Cup 2014 Brazil opening ceremony was one of the most impressive starts of the World Soccer Cup. A 29-year-old paraplegic man, Juliano Pinto, kicked off the 2014 World Cup.

As the name of the species suggests, a megamouth shark is quite a rare sighting. But group of Japanese fishermen were able to caught Megamouth shark off the coast of Japan from a depth of around 800m.

In 2008, a dirty looking, commercially worthless and three-millimetre-wide brown diamond having unique information was found in the Juina area of Mato Grosso, Brazil. The diamond is having a mineral called ringwoodite, which contains significant amount of water in it.

Scientists have found new species of river dolphin in the Araguaia River Basin in Central Brazil for the first time since 1918, which they believe are highly endangered. River dolphins, Botos, are the most endangered dolphins in the world with 75% of its different species have been found threatened and are on the verge of extinction.