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TILOS, Greece, July 22 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Before the tiny Greek island of Tilos became a big name in recycling, taverna owner Aristoteles Chatzifountas knew that whenever he threw his ...
JOHANNESBURG/ACCRA, June 14 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Alongside the food, clothing and nappies gifted to a shelter for South African flood victims, one donation proved especially popular - a ...
DURBAN/KASUNGU, Malawi, April 29 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Stanley Ngwira was used to seeing mosquitoes throng the big sky over his village in Malawi, but a drone hovering above the swarms ...
Brazil saw the largest forest losses due to commercial clearing, followed by Democratic Republic of Congo, while palm oil giants Indonesia and Malaysia made headway in stemming deforestation KUALA ...
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 ...
* Any views expressed in this opinion piece are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. The war in Ukraine shows the high stakes risk of concentrating food production to just a ...
WAYANAD DISTRICT, India, Feb 4 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - P. K. Madhavan stood proudly next to a young, sturdy mahogany tree, one of a hundred he planted three years ago on his farm in Wayanad ...
MINAÇU, Brazil, Jan 25 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In the Brazilian town of Minaçu, it used to snow, locals like to tell visitors. But the white powder that covered the streets and roofs from ...
* Any views expressed in this opinion piece are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. Examples like this don’t just undermine the credibility of ESG. They also make it much ...
BEIRUT, Oct 22 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - His motorbike's tank almost empty, Ahmad had barely enough fuel to make one more delivery and get home for the night. When the 24-year-old Syrian's ...
From floods to droughts to landslides, the West African nation has been battling the realities of climate change for more than a decade DURBAN, Oct 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Miami has one ...
A foreign labourer looks into the camera at a construction site in Dubai May 28, 2008. REUTERS/Jumana El Heloueh (UNITED ARAB EMIRATES) From beatings to unpaid wages, migrant workers face regular ...