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

'CHINESE MAFIA' Cambodia shut its borders when COVID-19 struck in March 2020, barred almost all international flights and closed its schools to contain the virus, leaving many tourists and foreign ...

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 ...

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 ...

From recruiting software that favours men to facial recognition systems that struggle to identify Black faces, artificial intelligence (AI) technology often reflects entrenched bias, campaigners ...

MUMBAI, Oct 18 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Investing in clean energy can help economies recover from the slowdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic as it will add more jobs than backing fossil ...

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 ...

Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ) is chair of the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee. Michael Shank is communications director for the Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance and adjunct faculty at NYU’s Center ...

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 ...

The factory will be the first of its kind in Africa and aims to produce enough plastic bricks to build 500 classrooms by 2021 (Amends UNICEF Ivory Coast communication head title in paragraph 6) By ...

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 ...