At least forty people were killed and at least 120 people were wounded in an explosion at a weapons cache in the central Syrian city of Homs on Thursday, a group ...

As expanding technology and infrastructure fuel global demand for resources, manufacturing powerhouses India and China, are eyeing the ocean ...

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 ...

As climate change drives worsening U.S. wildfires, federal firefighters say they are underpaid - and some are leaving (Fixes typo in paragraph 12) By Avi Asher-Schapiro and David Sherfinski LOS ...

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

Lago Agrio residents have been fighting in the courts for years to force U.S. oil company Chevron Corp to pay for water and soil contamination in Ecuador from 1964 to 1992 by Texaco, which Chevron ...

Large gaps in rates of employment, education, and earnings persist across races, says San Francisco Federal Reserve president Sept 8 (Reuters) - Racial and ethnic inequities have cost the U.S ...

As energy demand grows, with much of it still met from fossil fuels, emissions from building operations hit an all-time high in 2019 ROME, Dec 16 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Planet-warming ...

Bakong enables even users without a bank account to make payments and transfers through a mobile app By Rina Chandran BANGKOK, Dec 22 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Cambodia's central bank ...

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 ...

French architecture firm Studio Belem puts an emphasis on outdoor communal space and co-working facilities in its design for a post-Covid urban apartment block. BARCELONA, Aug 4 (Thomson Reuters ...

Farmer P. K. Madhavan stands by one of the mahogany trees he has mortgaged to the village ‘tree bank’ in Meenangadi, India on January 5, 2022. Thomson Reuters Foundation/K. Rajendran ...