South America

Tariffs were meant to punish Chinese exporters and encourage American manufacturing; instead, they have raised prices for US consumers

The public and civil society taking action to ensure compliance with environmental sustainability local and international laws and treaties is likely to gather momentum

The weather remains topical across the Southern Hemisphere but has resulted in mixed fortunes

We will have a poorer harvest than the glowing 2020-21 harvest, but will probably not have to import supplies

In deciding how the world responds to the climate crisis, policymakers rely on research that tends to be written predominantly by men in the Global North

Benguela exists in the country’s collective psyche in a way no other city does. It’s a place that’s inspired poets, musicians, writers and artists

To understand more about what’s going on in South America’s most populous country, and what might happen next, The Continent spoke to João Bosco Monte, the head of the Brazil…

But higher international commodity prices will keep input costs elevated for the livestock and poultry sector

Palm oil contributes to deforestation, biodiversity loss, peatland destruction and climate change, and the biofuel is more polluting than fossil-based diesel

Invincible defence technology uses transcendental meditation to reduce crime and violence

As chanting Bolivians kept up demonstrations in the street, the 60-year-old called new elections, but this was not enough to calm the uproar

A new study suggests they build super-highways without having to communicate with each other

That’s not the research findings the proponents of small-scale, organic agriculture want to hear

There are hundreds of variations on the basic ‘flavour’ of bird migration