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Scholars and political leaders worldwide are fretting over the complex connections between climate and...
Ilona Szabó de Carvalho, Co-Founder and President, Igarapé Institute, has spent most of her life working...
Once the epicenter of the global trade in gold, illegal mining is once again surging across the Amaz...
With the devastating effects of climate change already bearing down on the world’s urban areas, ambitious...
Jutting out from the second-largest continent, the Horn of Africa is one of the world’s regions most...
After seven straight years of record-breaking global temperatures, and nearly three decades since the...
More than one-fourth of the world’s population lives in conditions of insecurity because of high levels...
The COP26 in Glasgow may be the world’s last best chance to confront the most pressing global catastrophic...
Prospect and Cast from Clay, this year’s awards partners, are pleased to announce the shortlist for the...
Cities are the front line of climate change as perpetrators, victims, and problem-solvers
It is conceivable that 2021 will be remembered as the year we reached a climate action tipping point...
Yet now more than ever, humanity’s collective future hinges on effective cooperation
The world is facing interconnected and complex global challenges
The U.S. military responded less than 48 hours later with an unmanned airstrike in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar...
Data privacy exchanged for frictionless convenience is being compromised, stolen and leaked with disturbing...
With tensions rising between global powers, digital attacks increasing in frequency and intensity, deepening...
After all, they've been buying, pilfering and seizing them from ANDSF forces for almost two decades.
The notion that warmer weather can make us more violent is not new
Robert Muggah explores the effects of the coronavirus pandemic and national lockdowns
At first sight, the global vaccination rollout is mesmerizing
Local leaders told authorities that four boatloads of men arrived last week and threw tear gas canisters...
Nuclear weapons are without doubt the most indiscriminate and inhumane weapons ever conceived
If we didn’t know already, the COVID-19 pandemic has driven home the fact that data is the most important...
The COVID-19 pandemic is a stark reminder of how interconnected our fates are
Central Asia is the staging ground for a new digital Great Game
Louise Marie shares below some reflections on the importance of Cyber Portals to CCB and the lessons...
The Council's Robert Muggah offers TEDxSaoPaulo five priorities to disrupt the crime and corruption that...
Today on Front Burner, director of the Igarapé Institute in Rio de Janeiro and political analyst Robert...
On this episode of the Brazil Institute podcast, host Anya Prusa speaks with Ilona Szabó, the co-founder...
Cities around the world are designing reopening plans and imagining postpandemic life
“Colombia tried to peacefully resolve class conflict with the peace process, which sought to tackle the...
Daniel Pye’s interview with Igarapé Institute co-founder Robert Muggah about his organization’s Ecocrime...
Szabo said that while she did not believe the inquiry would have “immediate” ramifications for Bolsonaro...
Soaring gold prices have resulted in a massive ongoing invasion of the Indigenous reserve by gold miners...
“My daughter will never want to sleep there again,” the unidentified mother later told journalists, heavy...
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“Armed civilians fighting against each other is one of the most serious manifestations of the crisis...
As the world pressures Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro to act, Robert Muggah of the Igarape Institute, a think...
Maps are not just informative, they are empowering
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Op-eds
Rio de Janeiro's bloody war on crime continues amidst a deepening COVID-19 crisis
A policeman was among those killed in the early morning raid on Jacarezinho, on Rio’s north side, where...
This is one of a series of articles written by Young Global Leaders with action-oriented ideas to improve...
The Amazon Basin is fast approaching an irreversible tipping point
This map shows how economic power moved from east to west over the course of centuries — and then snapped...
Cities around the world are getting smarter.
“I always had the American dream,” says Bernardo Mattos, sitting outside his shooting club in Rio de...
Last year, Ian Goldin of the University of Oxford and Robert Muggah, a Brazil-based policy analyst, also...
A judge on Brazil's Supreme Federal Court on Monday suspended parts of four decrees issued by President...
The COVID-19 pandemic is transforming virtually every aspect of our lives.
Mongabay caught up with Igarapé Institute co-founder Robert Muggah this week to discuss Ecocrime, a new...
All coastal cities are vulnerable to climate change