In Brazil, climate and other human-made environmental changes threaten decades-long efforts to fight a widespread and debilitating parasitic disease. Now, a partnership between researchers from ...

The Duke Global Health Institute is expanding its Climate and Global Health Initiative with a new collaboration aimed at understanding of how climate change is affecting health across one of the world ...

Devastating floods led to more than 175 deaths and 423,000 people displaced in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul in May. It was the state's worst natural catastrophe in almost a ...

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Brazil is expanding its oil and gas exploration and production, including auctioning new blocks in environmentally sensitive areas, despite hosting the COP30 climate summit. President Lula da Silva's ...

For two weeks during November, countries are coming together in the city of Belém in Brazil to negotiate their responses to climate change. This will be the 30th UN climate summit, known as Cop30. It ...

BELÉM, Brazil — Brazil intended this year’s United Nations climate talks now underway in the Amazon rainforest, to be the capstone of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s effort to establish the ...

As world leaders grapple with the U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, Brazil, the host of this year's COP30 global climate summit, sees an opportunity to amplify the voices of developing nations ...

Two cruise ships are bobbing quietly in the specially expanded port near the city of Belem in northern Brazil on the edge of the Amazon. They will serve as alternative accommodation for more than ...

The Santa Rita neighborhood in the city of Guaiba, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, has experienced severe flooding since the rain began. Credit: ANSELMO CUNHA/AFP via Getty Images At the end of April ...

“Don’t read too much into it,” one international trade expert said. “See, this isn’t serious.” ...

Devastating floods led to more than 175 deaths and 423,000 people displaced in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul in May. It was the state’s worst natural catastrophe in almost a ...