As the intense summer heat continues to scorch Brazil, people in the country's cities, including those in Rio de Janeiro, are ...

Brazilian authorities Monday decreed a “state of water shortage” in the basins ... At the same time, the Paraguay River crosses the Pantanal. Brazil's northern region is expected to maintain ...

Vote for a strong global treaty on plastic pollution Plastic pollution is suffocating our rivers and ocean, killing wildlife and contaminating our food, air and water. Without immediate action, ...

Widespread ocean pollution threatens the health of more than 3 billion people, international study led by Boston College researchers shows Ocean pollution is widespread and getting worse, and when ...

Guanabara Bay, a natural port of about 400 square kilometers (154 square miles), battles pollution not only from ... country's Ibama environmental regulator or Brazil's navy, which patrols the ...

He started building and photographing sculptures of ocean trash to illustrate the problem of marine pollution. Eventually he began to gather the detritus to use as his art materials, cleaning a ...

Straws have emerged as one of the leading contributors to the plastic pollution crisis, frequently appearing on beaches ...