Two weeks ago I found myself showing Angelina Jolie and UK foreign minister William Hague around the Lac Vert camp for displaced people near Goma, where they had come to meet rape survivors. Two weeks ...
All five people in a twin engine light aircraft were killed when it crashed into a mountain in western Switzerland on Friday, police said. Footage from Swiss television showed silver-coloured wreckage ...
The inflation diaries: Rising prices are forcing many in Bangladesh to cut costs in the kitchen or seek out subsidised food DHAKA, July 18 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Unemployed Bangladeshi ...
DHAKA, May 9 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Twelve-year-old Alamin's house rested on the bank of the Ilsha river in southern Bangladesh until last year, when the surging river eroded it and the family ...
A new AI-based study compares cities' trees and lakes to how much concrete they have, to gauge their ability to respond to climate shocks DURBAN, March 24 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As climate ...
From making green shifts fairer for workers to slashing fossil fuel subsidies, action on climate change needs to ramp up in 2022, analysts say KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 5 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - From ...
BANGKOK, Dec 22 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Cambodia's central bank launched a pilot for a digital payment system in July 2019, its aim was to increase financial inclusion in the country and ...
Wildfires emitted 1.76 billion tonnes of carbon globally in 2021 - an equivalent to more than double Germany's annual CO2 emissions BRUSSELS, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Wildfires produced a record amount of ...
From floods to droughts to landslides, the West African nation has been battling the realities of climate change for more than a decade DURBAN, Oct 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Miami has one - so ...
A foreign labourer looks into the camera at a construction site in Dubai May 28, 2008. REUTERS/Jumana El Heloueh (UNITED ARAB EMIRATES) From beatings to unpaid wages, migrant workers face regular ...
PHNOM PENH, Sept 16 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Foreign workers and tourists stranded in Cambodia during the COVID-19 pandemic have been trafficked and forced to work in sophisticated Chinese-run ...
WASHINGTON, Sept 13 (Reuters) - Without immediate action to combat climate change, rising sea levels, water scarcity and declining crop productivity could force 216 million people to migrate within ...