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Brazil's extreme weather is creating the likelihood of climate change refugees

Record rains in southern Brazil due to climate change have many officials thinking about relocating towns. That would be hard for many who don't want to leave despite inevitable reoccurring floods.

Across the Big Bend, anti-wall signs, flyers and messages have popped up in homes and businesses, like this liquor store in Marfa, Texas.

In West Texas, an unlikely alliance stands against extending the border wall

An unusual coalition of people across the political spectrum have banded together to rally against a border wall in the Big Bend.

Fishermen wait to help people going to Colombia across the Arauca River near San Fernando de Apure in Venezuela in February 2017. More than 1 million Venezuelans are estimated to be living in Colombia.

Fleeing Crisis, Some Venezuelans Are Recruited By Rebel Forces Fighting In Colombia

Venezuelan migrants come into contact with Colombian guerrillas after crossing the river border. The migrants have turned up among captured and killed rebels, a Colombian military commander tells NPR.

Jo (left), Joy Banner and their parents fled to the Big House on the Whitney Plantation to ride out Hurricane Ida last Sunday. They say their enslaved ancestors helped build the house.

Descendants Of The Enslaved Sheltered From Ida In A Historic Plantation's Big House

Joy Banner's family took shelter in a house on a plantation their ancestors helped build. "They were not able to have this kind of house for their own protection when a hurricane hit them," she says.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg touring the closed Interstate 40 bridge Thursday crossing the Mississippi River.

Transportation Secretary Buttigieg visits closed Interstate 40 bridge

U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg traveled to Tennessee on Thursday to learn how the closure of the Interstate 40 bridge connecting that state and Arkansas has affected freight movement since it was shut down more than three weeks ago when a crack was found in the span.

Non-profit group hopes to launch innovation hubs in northeast Arkansas and southern Missouri

Doniphan Vitality, a non-profit organization, has received a $100,000 grant from the Delta Regional Authority, DRA, to conduct an innovation hub...

People walk near the remains of burned homes after Hurricane Sandy in the Breezy Point neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City on Oct. 31, 2012. Over 50 homes were reportedly destroyed in a fire during the storm.

A decade after Sandy, hurricane flood maps reveal New York's climate future

National Hurricane Center data for New York City shows development happening in at-risk areas, even as climate change brings more frequent and intense storms.

A police officer escorts a suspect in the area where Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira and freelance British journalist Dom Phillips disappeared, in Amazonas state, Brazil, June 15, 2022.

A suspect confesses to killing pair missing in Amazon, police say

Police say they arrested a second suspect identified as a brother of the main suspect in the deaths of an Indigenous expert and British journalist.

Snow falls on the Oceti Sakowin camp on Wednesday as structures smolder.

Protesters Leave Dakota Access Pipeline Area; Some Stay And Are Arrested

The governor of North Dakota had set Wednesday as the evacuation deadline for the largest protest camp. The Trump administration is allowing the pipeline to be built, despite the protests.

People cycle along the street in Afuá, a city in northern Brazil's Pará state, in January. <strong><strong></strong></strong>Since 2002, this city on the banks of the Amazon River has been famously off limits to motor vehicles.

A car-free town in the Amazon serves lessons for pedaling to net-zero emissions

Afuá, a remote town in the Brazilian Amazon, banned motor vehicles over 20 years ago. Writer Mac Margolis and photographer Stefan Kolumban paid the town a visit to see what life is like.

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