Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STORY: This river in Brazil’s Sao Paulo state has one of the world’s highest concentrations of microplastic pollution, according ...

The history of metal pollution in the city of São Paulo, the largest metropolis in Brazil and the Southern Hemisphere, can be read in the layers of sediment accumulated over the last century. Using ...

Pollution from the controlled fires that burn across Brazil's São Paulo state during the sugarcane-harvesting season has a negative impact on infant health nearby. But the health of those same infants ...

How much influence does beef production have on climate change? This is what a recent study published in Environmental Science and Pollution Research hopes to address as a team of researchers from the ...

Mining the heavy rare earths needed for clean technologies caused devastation in Asia. Miners in Brazil say they can extract them responsibly ...

BELEM, Brazil (AP) — For 30 years, world leaders and diplomats have gathered at United Nations negotiating sessions to try to curb climate change, but Earth’s temperature continues to rise and extreme ...

The four-day poll revealed deep concerns about surging gasoline prices, and also suggested many voters are casting blame for their troubles on Trump's Republican allies. Reuters, the news and media ...