Brazil bars Doctors Without Borders COVID-19 help to indigenous villages
Government declines help from the medical NGO in favour of their own doctors despite critique from indigenous communities in southern Brazil
UN water rights expert questions Chile's avocado and energy priorities
Intensive cultivation of avocados in Valparaiso and the Alto Maipo Hydroelectric Project may compromise the human rights to water and health, says U.N. rapporteur
Two die fighting California lightning fires, tens of thousands flee
Nearly 11,000 lightning strikes hit the state over a 72-hour stretch this week, igniting 367 fires
Greenland's ice sheet saw record mass loss in 2019, study finds
Greenland lost 532 gigatons of ice - equivalent to about 66 tons of ice for each person on Earth - in 2019
Michigan to pay $600 mln to Flint water crisis victims
Most of the amount will be reportedly allocated for children who suffered from lead-tainted tapwater after officials switched city's water supply six years ago
'Life or death': Baking U.S. cities legislate for air conditioning
Amid rising heat, some local authorities are mandating that rental buildings have air conditioning and are kept cool to a certain level
Lightning-sparked fires rage across California, tens of thousands flee
Nearly 11,000 lightning strikes were documented in heaviest spate of thunderstorms to hit California in over a decade, igniting 367 individual fires
Papuan tribes fear sacrifice of sago forests that stave off hunger
Indigenous peoples in Papua and West Papua provinces harvest sago as a staple food, but say their diets and culture are threatened by forest-clearing to produce palm oil
Two dead as Hurricane Genevieve approaches Los Cabos
Heavy rainfall may lead to life-threatening flash flooding and mudslides across southern tip of Mexico's Baja California peninsula, forecasters warn
Brazil vice president invites DiCaprio to see reality of Amazon rainforest
The invitation came as the government faces criticisms for rising destruction in the world's largest rainforest