In Borneo, offering affordable healthcare to villagers living near forests is helping to reduce illegal logging and fight climate change Oct 27 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Offering affordable ...

Cards aim to make it easier to identify those illegally cutting mangrove forests or poaching fish along Kenya's coast LAMU, Kenya, Oct 28 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Fishing communities on Kenya's ...

Despite gains in girls' educational attainment, women's life chances are limited by social norms, discriminatory laws and policies, and gender-based violence LONDON, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Despite steady ...

DANG, Nepal, Jan 13 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In the 15 years Chitra Bhan Khatri has been keeping bees in west Nepal, he never had trouble providing food for his insects - until last year, when ...

LONDON, May 12 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - What would happen if poor villages were given cash for the next decade, no strings attached? That's the question one U.S. charity wants to answer through ...

Under pressure from investors, regulators and climate activists, some big banks have acknowledged the role lenders will need to play in a rapid transition to a low-carbon economy UNITED NATIONS, Sept ...

LONDON, Dec 1 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The widening gap between rich and poor around the world is a "ticking time bomb" threatening to explode into social and economic unrest if left unchecked, ...

Paltry sums of international funding are being allocated to help poor families cook with modern, clean methods, exposing them to deadly household air pollution BARCELONA, Oct 22 (Thomson Reuters ...

Before considering the challenges of pro bono work in Colombia, it is important to refer first to the effective exercise of the fundamental right of access to justice. In Colombia, a large part of the ...

Reducing methane emissions is crucial to fighting climate change. The invisible gas traps over 80 times more heat than carbon dioxide—and we're emitting more than we thought. The greatest potential ...

SALT LAKE CITY, May 1 (Reuters) - A group of Utah ranchers has asked a judge to order the Bureau of Land Management to reduce the number of wild horses roaming public grazing lands, saying the agency ...

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