Nasibe Samsaei, an Iranian woman living in Turkey, reacts after she cut her hair during a protest following the death of Mahsa Amini, outside the Iranian consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, September ...

The Pacific nation of Palau is kicking off a digital residency scheme for anyone wishing to become a crypto-citizen ...

From South Africa to Uganda, innovators are racing to lighten the pressure on under-resourced health systems using technology ...

Many countries could see significant falls in GDP by 2030 if they fail to better conserve biodiversity and natural systems ...

What we choose to eat, how we move around and how these activities contribute to climate change is receiving a lot of media attention. In this context, greenhouse gas emissions from livestock and ...

Disasters in 2021 from extreme weather and natural phenomenon such as earthquakes resulted in a global economic loss of $270 billion, according to a report last month by the Swiss Re Institute ...

Report stops short of advocating going meat-free, but says dietary changes, featuring plant-based foods and sustainable animal-sourced food, could free up land and ...

Climate change-related losses are squeezing Iraq's parched farmers - and driving growing migration Crop failures grow as warming brings more heat and drought Farmers look to migrate - but urban ...

Although laws allowing slavery have been scrapped worldwide, many of the 193 U.N. member states have not gone on to explicitly criminalise slavery ...

WASHINGTON, Aug 31 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Annette Coen went for a health check-up last summer in Washington state, she and her doctor discussed concerns around her weight and asthma ...

Air pollution also contributes to 107,000 premature deaths per year in the United States, a report finds By Matthew Lavietes NEW YORK, May 20 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Air pollution from ...

But after losing their property to the river and their savings to failed cancer treatments, work is all Alamin can now expect, she lamented. As more extreme weather drives worsening flooding ...