This year's United Nations climate conference in November is in Belem, Brazil, a city facing high poverty and infrastructure ...

International Rivers expresses its profound concern over yesterday’s passage of Bill 2159/21 in the Brazilian Congress, which ...

Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States Background: The Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC) is one of the most ...

A short boat ride from Belém, an Amazon island offers a living lesson of the climate crisis that leaders will debate.

A bill that would essentially eliminate Brazil’s environmental licensing system is moving rapidly toward approval by a large anti-environmental majority in Congress. An amendment has been added ...

Ever since the nuclear disaster in Japan in March 2011, the solar energy scene in that country has evolved rapidly. Today, the solar electricity output accounts for almost 10% of the total energy ...

A decade after a dam collapsed in Brazil, sending a deluge of toxic mud into villages and waterways, residents complain of an inadequate cleanup and compensation by international mining firms.