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Heavy flooding in Brazil’s south creates havoc for residents

Natural disasters

Southern Brazil is facing the worst climate disaster in its history. Unprecedented floods have engulfed major Rio Grande do Sul cities, including the capital, Porto Alegre, where 135,000 people have been pushed from their homes, and there is still little end in sight.

Three people cross a ravine as they walk through a forest with water bottles and backpacks.

‘I’ll go for the American dream’: After struggling to get legal status in Colombia, many Venezuelan migrants are heading to the US

Immigration
A fully-covered man riding a motorbike in the street at night

New banking services tackle barriers faced by migrants

Business, Economics and Jobs
A group of runners carrying staffs and smile for a group shot

‘Spirit Run’: A new memoir details one man’s journey to reconnect with nature and his Indigenous heritage

Books
A police officer wearing a face mask asks for identification documents to a driver in one of the neighborhoods where the mayor's office decreed strict quarantine, amidst an outbreak of the coronavirus disease, in Bogota, Colombia, July 14, 2020.

Bogotá tries ‘staggered quarantine’ to slow coronavirus spread

Migrants are seen at temporary shelter in the village of La Penita, Panama, on August 23, 2019.

‘We’re dead here’: Migrants stranded in Panama rainforest amid coronavirus

Migration

With borders closed and entire countries on lockdown because of the coronavirus pandemic, some 2,000 migrants — many of them children under age 5 — have been detained for months in Panama, near the rainforest separating South and Central America.

Nathaniel B Palmer in port

Antarctica Dispatch 1: Gearing up and shipping out

Into the Thaw: Decoding Thwaites Glacier

The World’s Carolyn Beeler’s first dispatch from onboard the icebreaker comes from the port of Punta Arenas, in Chile’s Tierra del Fuego.

Scarlet tanager

Spring’s uncertain arrival poses problems for migrating birds

Environment

Migrating songbirds have finally found the springtime weather in North America that they need to survive and thrive. Only a couple of weeks ago, they had to fight unusual cold and deep snows in the Northern states.

Protesters gather to rally against U.S. President Donald Trump's firing of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director James Comey, outside the White House in Washington, U.S. May 10, 2017.

Trump firing Comey: ‘It helps every authoritarian in the world’

Global Politics

Journalists and academics across the globe see alarming parallels between the US and deeply troubled countries whose leaders go after those who investigate them.

Peru anchovies

What happens when you eat seafood at every meal for a year?

Food

And is there a sustainable way to eat this much fish?