NEW DELHI/SAO PAULO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Five years after the fatal gang rape of a student on a bus in New Delhi, the Indian capital was on Monday paired with Brazil's Sao Paulo as the world ...

More than 100 representatives from Latin American megacities (Bogotá, Buenos Aires, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Lima and Santiago), from water and sanitation operators, and from the ...

For the first time ever, Brazil is attempting a nationwide immunization campaign against yellow fever. An ongoing outbreak of the mosquito-borne disease has killed hundreds of people in parts of ...

Choice of fuel in the fleet of heavy-duty vehicles such as buses and trucks has major impact on air pollution and population health, shows study on recent experience in São Paulo, Brazil. A study ...

Artist's concept of the LA Megacities Carbon Project observing system. Ground sensors atop towers and buildings measure carbon dioxide, methane and carbon monoxide. An instrument atop Mt. Wilson scans ...

Fifteen years ago, Manoel Pinheiro Farias fled the drought-parched fields of northern Ceara state in search of a better life. With his wife, Francisca, and two young children, he rented a two-room ...

Driving down busy Interstate 5 in Los Angeles in a nondescript blue Toyota Prius, Riley Duren of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., is a man on a mission as he surveys the vast urban ...