Drying Amazon rainforest closer to 'tipping point', scientists warn
The world’s largest forest is growing less able to recover from droughts, researcher say, with huge implications for efforts to curb climate change
FACTBOX: Colombia decriminalizes abortion amid Latin American shift
Monday’s landmark court ruling makes Colombia the region's third country in two years to decriminalize abortion, after Argentina and Mexico
Tree-clearing criminals fuel Colombia's wildfire surge
Government officials are hunting suspects accused of setting wildfires – but genuinely slowing rising deforestation will require a more proactive government presence in threatened areas, analysts warn
Colombia's Amazon indigenous groups train youth to defend rainforest
Creating a next generation of Amazon indigenous leaders is key to preserving fast-vanishing tropical forests. Here's how remote communities are trying
Defending the Amazon: How indigenous culture protects Colombia's rainforest
Indigenous communities are widely considered the best guardians of vanishing rainforests. From using farm plots later regrown as forest to looking at nature as having its own rights, here’s why that’s the case
Abortion rights: U.S. restrictions buck the global trend in 2021
While U.S. states have enacted more than 100 abortion curbs this year, countries including Mexico and Argentina have eased their strict laws
Chile same-sex marriage vote celebrated as historic
Chile joins more than 20 nations to legalize same-sex marriage
Climate change, COVID-19 and conflict drive 'alarming' rise in aid need
About 274 million people are expected to require humanitarian assistance next year - a 17% jump from 2020, and one aid agencies will struggle to handle, U.N. official say
U.S. abortion battle: What is the law in other countries?
From El Salvador to the Philippines, various countries have near-total bans on abortion like the one that came into force in Texas in September
As Colombia mulls easing abortion law, teen mothers pay high price
Most of Colombia’s teenage mothers struggle to continue their studies or find well-paid work, a pattern played out in much of Latin America