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Environmentalist Emily Kelsall holds up samples of gas pump labels.
Environment
A Canadian city is putting warning labels on gas pumps
“Habitat Degradation: Ocean Acidification” contains ocean pH data from 1998 to 2012. Research on clownfish has shown that more acidic water affects their ability to detect the chemical signals that they used to find their way home.
Environment
Watercolor? Look closer. It’s a climate change graph!
Maria da Penha
Global Politics
Iconic activist in Rio watches as her home is bulldozed to make way for the Olympics
Russian President Vladimir Putin celebrates International Women's Day at the Kremlin in Moscow March 8, 2015.
Environment
Aw, thanks, Vladimir: But Women’s Day is hurting Russia’s carbon footprint
Honduran activist protest
Environment
In the world’s most dangerous nation for environmentalists, a leader is murdered
Mavis, a housekeeper from the Pretoria township of Mamelodi, depends on her garden to help provide for her five children and seven grandchildren. But with this year's region-wide drought, her garden is just a dusty patch of seedlings. “I want rain every d
Environment
For one South African house cleaner, this year’s big drought means crying, hungry children
oil pelican
Environment
As a child, the beach was synonymous with tar on my feet
Cup Island trash
Environment
Not many fish are left to bite in Rio’s trash-lined bay
Brazilians embrace at Piscinão de Ramos, an artifical lake next to Guanabara Bay.
Culture
Banned from the beach for pollution, these Brazilians brought beach culture to a lake
devi
Environment
She’s 23. Here’s why she’s biking around the world.
Gleide Guimarães
Environment
The bigger problems behind Brazil’s recent disease outbreaks
Isabel Swan
Environment
Olympic sailor Isabel Swan wants a clean bay in Brazil for the Olympics
Antonia Melo
Environment
Brazil’s huge dam is built, but these women won’t stop fighting
water barrels
Environment
‘Little Teresa’ helps São Paulo women fight drought and male domination — with rain barrels
doctors at Ipojuca
Health
A ‘tsunami of disease’ slams Brazil’s health system
Melting Men
Arts
This Brazilian artist’s work doesn’t last, it melts. And that’s her point.
Nadja Cristina Gomes Bezerra
Health
Brazil’s microcephaly outbreak captured in portraits
Germana Soares is shown holding her child next to a doctor holding a black and white striped card.
Health
‘We have a child with microcephaly, and we’re happy’
The basic problem facing endangered species? Too many humans.
Environment
Could the Pill save the polar bear?
Elaine Marques, 29 (center left) smiles at Germana Soares, 24, at a group birthday party for babies born with microcephaly in Recife, Brazil.
Health
How Brazil’s favorite app is helping doctors and parents cope with microcephaly
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Justice
How you can help: Groups doing important work for women, their communities and the environment
Margareth Capurro
Science
These mosquitoes could be a weapon against Zika
Brazil Zika and Olympic budget comparison chart
Health
The budget for the Rio Olympics is 16 times higher than the budget to combat the Zika virus
Fumigating against dengue, Zika
Health
We’ve lost the battle against dengue, is Zika next?
Brazilian soldiers inspecting water container for Zika
Health
Improving water sources, sanitation facilities and poverty alleviation may not be the solution to Brazil’s Zika outbreak
Brazilian soldiers distribute educational flyers about the Zika virus in São Paulo, the country's largest city.
Environment
Zika is a window into a much bigger story in Brazil
A scientist displays Aedes aegypti mosquitoes inside the International Atomic Energy Agency's insect pest control laboratory, Austria.
Medicine
Quiz: How much do you actually know about the Zika virus?
A woman and child in costume dance during a street carnival at which health workers distributed kits with information about the Zika virus, on Ipanema beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Health
As Brazil marks Carnival, women worry about Zika
Dr. Natalia Brin examines a 2-month-old with suspected microcephaly in Brazil.
Health
A new link between Zika and microcephaly is found in Brazil