(CNN) — Karine Pitana had just paid off the last installment on her new couch when floods tore through her hometown of Canoas in southern Brazil nearly two weeks ago. It was just a piece of furniture, ...

Google shrunk a team that has helped police save lives and investigate major crimes, even as it promised the DOJ it would keep it adequately staffed. As Google’s frontline for outside data requests, ...

To figure out how to save the wetland forests of the Amazon, an ecologist from Brazil led a massive series of expeditions to sample trees across the vast rain-forest. Climate extremes like floods and ...