In the years leading-up to the outbreak of genocide in Darfur, in 2003, median rainfall plummeted by a third.

A new report from the Igarape Institute delivers a snapshot of the scope and scale of the migration and displacement challenges ahead     Rising temperatures and extreme weather are increasingly determining where and how people live. Heat waves, droughts, forest fires, hurricanes, and storms…

It can seem like climate change affects all communities equally

It all began with a bureaucratic assignment on Jan. 12, 1830.

Agriculture has come a long way in the twenty-first century.

Any hope of keeping global temperatures under 2C depends on the acceleration of radical climate action – including in the world’s forests.

The spread of Brazil’s gangs into the Amazon is hardly new.

Ilona Szabó de Carvalho, Co-Founder and President, Igarapé Institute, has spent most of her life working to build coalitions for collective action and says it will take broad and diverse networks of people to tackle the biggest challenges in the world.

Once the epicenter of the global trade in gold, illegal mining is once again surging across the Amazon.

With the devastating effects of climate change already bearing down on the world’s urban areas, ambitious decarbonization and adaptation promises from municipal leaders could not come soon enough

After seven straight years of record-breaking global temperatures, and nearly three decades since the first United Nations consort on environment and development, concern over the gathering climate emergency has finally gone mainstream

Prospect and Cast from Clay, this year’s awards partners, are pleased to announce the shortlist for the 2021 Think Tank Awards

The notion that warmer weather can make us more violent is not new

Local leaders told authorities that four boatloads of men arrived last week and threw tear gas canisters at the Maikohipi village, nestled in the Palimiu region in Brazil’s largest and best-known Indigenous reserve, Yanomami.

The COVID-19 pandemic is a stark reminder of how interconnected our fates are