South America appears to be at the frontline of the climate crisis blamed on global warming, with wildfires wreaking havoc ...

For the last few years, climate scientists, environmentalists and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva have been talking up the first United Nations climate summit to be held in the Amazon.

Nearly a decade ago, the Philippine drug war raged, and desperate people tried to avoid former President Rodrigo Duterte’s deadly crackdown ...

Real estate’s transformation from necessity to speculative asset accelerated after World War II. Within decades, everything ...

The power struggle between the Philippines’ Marcos and Duterte families roils the key American ally as Rodrigo Duterte stands ...

The bodies terrified Betchie Salvador, because she always knew her husband could be next. They had begun turning up in cities all over the Philippines ever since President Rodrigo Duterte launched a ...

The cancellation of Big Bird and co. would be a loss, but there’s something bigger going on. Sesame Street ’s fate is symptomatic of a larger shift in how corporations, governments, and, increasingly, ...

POOR people in vast city slums across the Global South are burning plastic to ... So it’s not surprising people in developing countries, mainly in Africa, Asia and Latin America, are putting it to use ...

The opening weeks of the second Trump administration have produced daily headlines that read — no, this is not hyperbole! — ...

The effort is part of a global scientific trial to study how indoor heat impacts health and economic outcomes in developing ...

While a surge of immigrants has ended Covid-era losses, the effect might be fleeting, ...

Is America currently in a housing crisis? Sherri Lawson Clark says individuals at all economic levels—from homeless ...