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The far-right leader has spent months downplaying the severity of Covid-19 even as cases surge in his country.
As the world's death toll closes in on half a million, cases in Brazil are still accelerating and infections in India may not peak until November.
Maju Giorgi organised thousands of Brazilian mothers to protect children from homophobia.
Wildfires burned around the world this year from Australia to California and the Amazon. These forest blazes are part of nature but climate change is making them more frequent and more intense.
Artemisa Xakriabá, 19, represents two groups most threatened by environmental destruction: indigenous tribes and young people.
Presidents Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro have forged a nationalist alliance based on the idea that climate change is a hoax.
Hundreds of global corporations have promised to help limit deforestation. None of them is meeting that goal.
Prisons like Altamira, where 57 inmates just died, are overcrowded, understaffed and controlled by gangs. But there’s little appetite for reform.