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Recent months may well be remembered as the moment when predictive artificial intelligence went main...
In late January, harrowing pictures from the Yanomami Indigenous reserve began popping up on Brazilian...
Even as the armed forces and police broke up the 8 January insurrection in Brasilia, carting more than...
Cybercrime is high on the agenda of nation states, corporations and international organizations ever...
In the years leading-up to the outbreak of genocide in Darfur, in 2003, median rainfall plummeted by...
Between July 25 and 29, UN member states gathered in New York for the third substantive session of the...
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Safer cities
If cities are where the future happens first, then the future came early to Bogota
It can seem like climate change affects all communities equally
What is Canada’s place in the new Great Game, over the control of critical minerals and rare earths?
It all began with a bureaucratic assignment on Jan. 12, 1830.
The world is confronting multiple intersecting geopolitical events with highly unpredictable consequ...
Agriculture has come a long way in the twenty-first century.
Any hope of keeping global temperatures under 2C depends on the acceleration of radical climate action...
Ravaged by a pandemic, a brutal war in Europe, and rising social unrest over unaffordable food and fuel,...
Co-founder and president of Igarapé Instituto, Ilona Szabó is one of global experts invited by...
Russia’s motives for invading Ukraine vary from security fears to revisionist historical claims that...
The spread of Brazil’s gangs into the Amazon is hardly new.
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...