The story of Astrid Puentes Riaño is rooted in the soil of Colombia. Born in Bogotá to a family with campesino roots, her ...

In 2024, more than 2,000 people are believed to have died at sea while attempting to reach Spain’s Canary Islands from Senegal and the Gambia. According to the NGO Environmental Justice Foundation ...

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Rosa Mis walks on a carpet of cracking dry leaves under the scorching sun of late May. Her green T-shirt blends in with the ...

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Thousands of people used to cross the Darién Gap every day. Emerging from the rainforest, they would stop in small towns ...

The Maya Golden Landscape in southern Belize is a patchwork of protected areas, agricultural lands and small communities, ...

In early February, in downtown Bogotá, Colombia, Luis Alfredo Acosta recited a line in a book from memory: “I am from the ...

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For more than 12 years, the government of Viana municipality in Brazil’s Maranhão state dumped used needles and syringes into ...