A new study in the journal Science indicates the growing frequency of severe droughts in the Amazon could make the world’s biggest rainforest a net emitter of greenhouse gases.
Brazil’s National Indigenous Foundation (FUNAI) has released new photographs of an isolated tribe living in a remote rainforest region near the Peruvian border.
Brazil’s environmental agency IBAMA issued a construction permit for the Belo Monte dam on the Xingu River in the Amazon—in a move called illegal by the Public Prosecutor’s Office.
Palestinians demonstrating in support of Egyptian anti-government protesters were forcibly disbanded when a few dozen men in plainclothes disrupted the rally in Ramallah.
Thousands took to the streets in Milan and Belgrade to demand their respective governments step down—although the Italian protests played to the left and the Serbian to the populist right.
At least two people were killed in the northern Tunisian city of El Kif when police opened fire on protesters who reportedly threw fire bombs and stones at a police station.
At the Munich summit, US envoy Frank Wisner said that "Mubarak's continued leadership is critical." His PR firm, Patton Boggs, has contracts with the Egyptian government.
Jewish Voice for Peace Los Angeles chapter leader Estee Chandler discovered a “WANTED for treason and incitement against Jews” poster plastered on her front porch.
The Center for Constitutional Rights said the death of a Guantánamo Bay detainee highlights problems of the Obama administration’s policy of permanent detention.
The US is conducting a manhunt for a previously unknown cell believed to be involved in the planning of the 9-11 attacks, according to a US cable released by WikiLeaks.
A new anti-Taliban offensive by the Pakistani military in the tribal region of Mohmand bordering Afghanistan has forced some 25,000 residents to flee, according to the UNHCR.
Hundreds of protesters marched in cities around Iraq, demanding basic services such as water and electricity. Protests failed to materialize in Syria, despite a called “day of rage.”
