Exxon Mobil Corp will pay ${esc.dollar}25 million as part of a settlement to clean up a decades-old oil spill in New York City, the state's attorney general said on Wednesday. The settlement, filed ...

Faced with escalating violence, a lack of funding, and locked out of male-dominated networks, many women are reluctant to enter politics with growing concerns that a drive to get women into power ...

Sept 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Protests have broken out across Iran over the death of a woman held by morality police for "unsuitable attire", with activists warning of worse to come as the ...

oanie Fredericks addressing the Tafelsig community outside her home about COVID-19 protocol at the feeding stations in Cape Town, South Africa, August 2020. Handout via Tafelsig Mitchells Plain CAN.

LONDON, March 19 (Reuters) - India is the most vulnerable country to climate change, followed by Pakistan, the Philippines and Bangladesh, a ranking by HSBC showed on Monday. The bank assessed 67 ...

Web Summit conference hears plans by Danish architecture firm BIG and Chinese tech company Terminus to build an AI-run city in Chongqing Dec 3 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - From robots delivering ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, Sept 13 (Reuters) - Without immediate action to combat climate change, rising sea levels, water scarcity and declining crop productivity could force 216 million people to migrate within ...

LOS ANGELES/WASHINGTON, July 14 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - More than 17 years of fighting wildfires for the U.S. Forest Service has taken a toll on Brian Campbell. He's been homeless, once ...

The rise in rubbish will outstrip population growth, reaching 3.4 billion tons by 2050 from around 2 billion tons in 2016 TEPIC, Mexico, Sept 20 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Global waste could grow ...

As energy demand grows, with much of it still met from fossil fuels, emissions from building operations hit an all-time high in 2019 ROME, Dec 16 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Planet-warming carbon ...

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 ...