Brazilians honour coronavirus victims in Sao Paulo homage
Sao PauloReuters Brazilians on Sunday paid tribute in Sao Paulo to friends and family members who died of the coronavirus by writing messages on a mural set up on a boulevard in honour of the 680,000 people Brazil lost to the pandemic. The South American nation as of July had the world’s third-highest death toll […]
Heavy rains cause landslides and flooding in São Paulo, killing 18
Brasilia, BrazilReuters Landslides and flooding from heavy rains in Sao Paulo state have killed at least 18 people since Friday, including seven children, public safety officials said on Sunday. According to São Paulo state authorities, nine other people were injured in the rains and five more were missing, while some 500 families were left homeless […]
Changing climate: As Amazon destruction continues, Brazil faces future of floods, drought
FABIO ZUKER, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how heating planet and surging deforestation are altering long-standing weather patterns throughout Brazil and South America…
StrangeSights: A bird’s eye view of Sao Paulo; a call-out for all Kyles; and, more Hungarians carry wives…
DAVID ADAMS writes about the odder side of life…
Healthcare collapse imminent, Brazil’s Sao Paulo warns, as COVID-19 cases surge
Sao Paulo/Brasilia, BrazilReuters Brazil’s richest and most populous state, Sao Paulo, has warned its ability to care for seriously ill COVID-19 patients was on the verge of collapse as it ran perilously low on key drugs, according to a letter to the federal government seen by the Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper. Sao Paulo state […]
Air pollution kills thousands in megacities despite COVID lockdowns
Kuala Lumpur, MalaysiaThomson Reuters Foundation Air pollution caused tens of thousands of deaths in the world’s five most populous cities last year despite coronavirus lockdowns, researchers said on Thursday, urging governments to ditch fossil fuels and invest in a green recovery. Environmental campaign group Greenpeace Southeast Asia and air quality technology company IQAir measured pollution […]
Brazil’s anti-slavery wins bring new test: how to compensate victims
Rio de Janeiro, BrazilThomson Reuters Foundation After rescuing two Bolivian women held as slaves in a home in Sao Paulo last year and recouping the wages they were owed, officials faced an unexpected problem: there was too much money. The abusive employer – who recruited the women from a human trafficker then forced them to […]
COVID-19 cases rise in Mexico, Brazil
Mexico City, MexicoAP Mexico passed the 40,000-death mark Tuesday and reported near-record levels of newly confirmed coronavirus cases. The Health Department reported that COVID-19 deaths rose by 915 to reach 40,400, the fourth highest total behind the United Kingdom at 45,507. A man not wearing a face mask walks by as city health department workers […]
VENEZUELAN REFUGEES: AS CRISIS BUILDS, CHURCH STRUGGLES TO CARRY OUT POPE’S CALL
EDUARDO CAMPOS LIMA, of Religion News Service, reports on how the ongoing crisis in Venezuela is affecting neighbouring nations and overwhelming Catholic Church efforts to help…
From Cape Town to Kabul: taps run dry in crisis cities
Thomson Reuters Foundation PICTURE: Luis Tosta/Unsplash Drought-stricken Cape Town could run out of water as soon as April, but South Africa is not alone in its struggle as ever more world cities battle acute water shortages. Water scarcity already affects more than 40 per cent of the world’s population and is expected to rise due […]