Neither Porto Alegre, Brazil, nor Valencia, Spain, are in the news this week. But they have been before, and almost certainly ...

A inflação é alta no Brasil, mas na Região Metropolitana de Porto Alegre foi a menor entre as avaliadas pelo IBGE, o que nos causa uma situação peculiar. Isto ajuda a preservar o salário ...

Atualmente, Brum era suplente de vereador em Porto Alegre pelo Podemos e secretário-adjunto de Inclusão e Desenvolvimento Humano da capital do RS. A informação foi divulgada pela Câmara de ...

Porto Alegre registrou calor intenso na manhã deste sábado. Apesar dos termômetros marcarem aproximadamente 34 graus, por volta do meio-dia, o público ainda aproveitava o sol para caminhar ...

Máxima chegou a 38,1ºC. Segundo a Climatempo Meteorologia, Porto Alegre foi a capital mais quente do Brasil, à frente de Rio de Janeiro (36,8°C), Porto Velho (34,2°C), Cuiabá (33,9°C ...

Poor people in vast city slums across the Global South are burning plastic to cook their food, warm their homes and boil water for hot showers. Waste plastic is plentiful and highly flammable.

In the slums of Wakaliga, on the outskirts of Uganda's capital Kampala, an independent film studio has been defying norms for 20 years. With shoestring budgets, Wakaliwood produces action and ...

In the Vanzara Vas slum in the Narol area of the city, which has more than 2,000 dwellings, most of them airless, one-room homes, residents that are part of the project, such as Nehal Vijaybhai ...

The mass of shanties on the sixth floor of a landmark is no Tower of David, the skyscraper that Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez gave slum-dwellers, but it is home to many families for decades The City of ...

I’m the head of CFK Africa, a nongovernmental organization that empowers youth and fights extreme poverty in Kenyan slums. The sudden dismantling of USAID means lives are being disrupted ...

Dhaka's sprawling slums have long been a symbol of hardship, but a worsening crisis is now intensifying the struggles of their residents — the alarming rise of drug addiction. A field visit to various ...

As climate change has made India’s summers more extreme, Ahmedabad has suffered temperatures in excess of 46°C. In the Vanzara Vas slum in the Narol area of the city, which has more than 2,000 ...