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 ...

The war in Ukraine shows the high stakes risk of concentrating food production to just a few countries – the latest in a series of overlapping food crises ...

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

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 ...

In a 2012 file photo, a boy plays on a rainbow flag during a gay pride march in Manila. REUTERS/Cheryl Ravelo While doing research for an LGBT rights project, I was intrigued when I came across a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

TIME - AND TIPS - LOST Two Toters drivers shared a list of working conditions they had received in September that stated: "A driver cannot refuse an order for any reason." The instructions said ...

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

What it will take to build a food system that is not only healthy and sustainable for the planet, but also recognises the critical role of smallholder producers in ...