In 2023 Costa Rica’s tourism industry attracted 2.5 million visitors, a figure that’s steadily been on the rise due to the ...

The entire island of Cuba is undergoing a blackout that began late Friday morning due to the failure of one of the few energy plants that were still working, amid ...

Discussions on indigenous rights, nature’s DNA ownership, and financing biodiversity recovery are top of the agenda next week ...

As the world observe International Sloth Day on October 19, let us take a moment to appreciate these unique creatures and ...

The world in recent years has been crossed by multiple crises. We could speak of a global, intersectional and interconnected “poly-crisis” of neoliberal capitalism: profound political shifts and ...

We certainly felt that way years ago after talking to University of Chicago scholar James Robinson, and it turns out…the ...

The growing gender gap between men and women is reflected not only in the world's highest political hierarchies but also in the daily social and economic lives--with most women fighting a losing ...

Mobility poverty remains a pressing issue in Tanzania, where 68% of the population lives in rural areas and struggles to ...

This article was originally published in Review of Democracy on October 16, 2024 “Democracy is fragile. You have to fight for ...

The following map illustrates how income inequality varies around the globe. It uses the Gini index (or coefficient), which ...

Illegal gold mining along the banks of northwestern Colombia’s Atrato river is causing severe contamination and deforestation for the small, impoverished riverbank communities made up of predominantly ...