As toxic mine waste slowly flows downstream in the Rio Doce, it poisons water and kills fish.

Some towns are emptying as people in them have no water. What I wonder is, how long will it take before the river water is safe again? Will it be weeks, or decades?

Talking of "slow-motion environmental catastrophe", the whole world is facing an even slower one.

Portland, Oregon, has banned all new fossil fuel infrastructure.

The whole world ought to do this.

The ICC seems to be investigating NATO's responsibility for torture in Afghanistan.

Global heating is making winter snowpacks shrink; declining water supply will affect two billion people.

Haitians are protesting massively against the rigged presidential election.