News coverage the catastrophic impacts of global warming are everywhere. From the Arctic to Brazil, the house is clearly on fire.
The fate of the Amazon is intertwined with the fate of the world. If 20-25 percent of its tree cover is cut down, scientists estimate, the basin’s capacity to absorb carbon dioxide would be severely compromised, taking out of operation one of the world’s largest carbon sinks.
O futuro parece mais ameaçador e tenebroso do que nunca. A sensação de melancolia está cada vez mais enraizada, especialmente no Ocidente. As manchetes diárias não ajudam.
Brazil has struggled to contain prison violence for decades. A riot at the Altamira prison in Pará state on July 29, which left at least 62 inmates dead, revealed just how much work still needs to be done.
Sixty-two people are dead following a riot at a prison in northern Brazil earlier this week. Fifty-eight inmates were killed when a fight broke out between rival gangs at a prison in Altamira, in Para state, including 16 who were beheaded.
The future feels more threatening and ominous than ever. The sense of doom and gloom is deepening, not least in the West.
The greatest wave of democratisation in history is receding – and crime and violence are to blame. Latin Americans were among the most devoted converts to democracy in the late 20th century.
All coastal cities are facing sea-level rise, but some will be hit harder than others. Asian cities are in for a particularly rough ride.
The absolute number, prevalence and lethality of terrorist incidents has decreased significantly around the world since its peak in 2014.
De Robert Muggah Publicado no NPR Once again, Brazil’s hellish prisons are making global headlines. The spotlight this week is on Manaus, the capital of the country’s northern Amazonas state, where violence at different prisons left 55 inmates dead. On Sunday, the mutilated bodies of 15
One of the world’s most homicidal countries just registered the sharpest overall decline of lethal violence in its history
Brazilians have an uneasy but enduring co-existence with homicide. Over 1,060,000 of them have been murdered since 2000.
Brazil has an uneasy co-existence with homicide. At least 1,060,000 Brazilians have been murdered since 2000.
The world is less violent today than at virtually any other time in human history
Para pesquisadores, combate à pilhagem dos recursos e à expansão do crime organizado na Amazônia demanda fortalecimento de instituições públicas e cooperação entre os países da região.
O cheiro de borracha queimada paira no ar. As ruas do Haiti estão novamente repletas de barricadas fumegantes depois que mais de 1 milhão de pessoas foram às ruas protestar.
The United States will withdraw all remaining staff from its embassy in Venezuela, according to a late-night March 11 announcement by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Twitter, who cited the “deterioriating situation” there.
As the world’s largest terrestrial carbon sink, the Amazon is a key front in the fight against climate change.
One of humanity’s gravest existential threats is invisible. Pandemics are silent killers and have prematurely ended the lives of more people than virtually any other cause.
Global cooperation is at a crossroads. Many of the world’s biggest challenges are not a result of disagreements about how to cooperate, but a profound loss of direction about why to cooperate in the first place.
Venezuela’s borders are now dangerous flashpoints in a tense showdown between President Nicolas Maduro and Venezuela’s self-declared interim president, Juan Guaidó.
BANGUI, Central African Republic—To locals, he is known simply as “Force.” The moniker is appropriate. In a country teeming with warlords—feared and admired in equal parts
Démocraties fatiguées 3|6. La montée de l’autoritarisme est inquiétante, mais les libertés continuent leur marche en avant. Sans excès de confiance, battons-nous pour elles, estiment les chercheurs Steven Pinker et Robert Muggah.
A shadow hangs over Toronto after Sunday’s shooting on the Danforth. The recent killing spree follows on the heels of a vehicle attack on Yonge Street this spring and a raft of shootings, including one with small children in the crossfire last month.
O que torna o último surto de violência política particularmente notável é a rapidez com que a opinião pública passou a se opor ao presidente Daniel Ortega
Nicaragua’s political crisis is spinning out of control, with political tensions rising to levels not seen since the 1970s, during the country´s revolution to oust the Somoza dictatorship.
There are ominous signs of growing turbulence around the world. The number of civil wars has doubled since 2001 – jumping from 30 to 70. The number of people killed in these armed conflicts has increased tenfold since 2005.
Africans are moving to the city. Already home to the world’s youngest and fastest-growing population, the continent is urbanizing more rapidly than any other part of the planet.
Minutos depois de cruzarem a fronteira, eles são arrancados dos braços das mães. Alguns, ainda amamentados, são levadas para abrigos temporários.
The images of children being forcibly separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border are shocking by any standard.
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