Rio de Janeiro kicked off the Christmas season with fireworks over its towering floating Christmas tree that was lighted Saturday night in Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon. OK, technically it’s not a ...

The bad news for Rio de Janeiro ahead of the 2016 Olympics keeps coming after scores of dead fish appeared in the Rodrigo de Freitas lagoon. With just over a year to go before the city hosts the ...

Residents of a high-end neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro woke up to the unpleasant smell of 13 tons of rotting dead fish floating in the city's Rodrigo de Freitas lagoon. Biologists believe the ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Rio de Janeiro presented what they are calling the largest ever floating Christmas 'tree' on the Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon.

Fireworks light the biggest floating Christmas tree in the world, on Dec. 5, 2009, in the opening ceremony at Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Antonio Scorza/Getty From the ...

Rio de Janeiro presented what they are calling the largest ever floating Christmas ‘tree’ on the Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon. The giant structure was inaugurated with a firework display during ...

Mario Gyr, Simon Niepmann, Simon Schürch und Lucas Tramèr rowed their way to victory in the lightweight men’s four event on the Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon. The world champions and two-time ...

Environmentalists believe the effects of El Nino have killed hundreds of fish and caused them to wash ashore in a lagoon in Rio de Janeiro. Dead fish float at the Rodrigo de Freitas lagoon in Rio ...