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* Any views expressed in this opinion piece are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. As extreme weather worsens, what can Germany and other disaster-hit countries learn from ...
BANGKOK, July 16 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Phatsanee Phutkaew lost nearly everything she owned 10 years ago when her modest canalside home in Bangkok was damaged by Thailand's worst floods in ...
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Stoning, a form of execution where a group throws stones at a person until they are dead, still happens in parts of the Muslim world, mostly as a punishment ...
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 ...
RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 23 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When labor inspectors arrived in a rural area of the Brazilian Amazon state of Para in late June, they expected to rescue illegal loggers ...
* Any views expressed in this opinion piece are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. In Chad, our way of life gives space to nature to regenerate - when we leave a piece of ...
A box of vegetables is displayed at a 900 square meters farm garden on the rooftop of a postal sorting center, as part of a project by Facteur Graine (Seed Postman) association to transform a city ...
* Any views expressed in this opinion piece are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. There are many more people like me, who could provide their perspective and expertise in ...
Although laws allowing slavery have been scrapped worldwide, many of the 193 U.N. member states have not gone on to explicitly criminalise slavery LONDON, Feb 12 (Thomson Reuters Foundation ...
A commuter waits for a subway train in the L'Enfant Plaza subway station before the start of the morning rush in Washington, U.S. June 12, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst As climate 'tipping points ...
KOIYET VILLAGE, Kenya, June 30 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Over the past year, Wilson Lang'at has made a steady profit from his farm in Koiyet village, managing to get the seeds and fertiliser ...
As Britain announces its 'green industrial revolution' and bans the sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2030, here's a roundup of other countries' plans Nov 18 (Reuters) - Britain will ban the ...