In the depths of India's illegal mica mines, where children as young as five work alongside adults, lurks a dark, hidden secret - the cover-up of child deaths with seven killed in the past two months, ...

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 for ...

BANGKOK, April 16 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Singapore is betting on floating solar farms and vertical panels to increase its clean-energy supplies and cut carbon emissions, a model that could ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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) - Slavery ...

Exceeding heat limits in the Paris Agreement on climate change could threaten thousands of species in the Amazon and beyond RIO DE JANEIRO, June 28 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Many of Brazil's ...

LONDON, Oct 27 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Making sure all girls are finishing secondary education by 2030 could boost the gross domestic product (GDP) of developing countries by 10% on average ...

Farmer Qasim Abdul Wahad looks at one of his date palms which are struggling due to salination and lack of water near the village of Abu Al-Khaseeb in southern Iraq’s Basra governorate, March 6, 2022.

LONDON, Nov 30 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Last year more than 1 million refugees and migrants arrived in Europe, many fleeing wars in Asia and the Middle East. Trust Women, an annual women's right ...

May 16 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Otajar John heard senior citizens would be given 25,000 Ugandan shillings ($7) per month as part of a new government welfare scheme, he jumped at the chance ...