When incomes decline, families become desperate. Marrying off their girls can be a step toward easing this despondency.

This week saw the Third March of Indigenous Women in Brasilia, Brazil. Its theme: “Women Biomes in Defense of Biodiversity Through Ancestral Roots.” Demonstrators took to the streets for women’s rights and to defend their right to Indigenous lands.

As the world comes off the hottest summer ever recorded, researchers are feverishly studying the devastating effects of heat on the body.

One terrible morning, after battling a relentless onslaught of ocean waves for years, Modupe Akerele’s waterfront home finally crumbled in submission to the sea. She was lucky to make it out alive.