French foreign minister Alain Juppe said on Saturday he was pessimistic over the chances of a U.N. Security Council resolution on Syria, after he and other EU foreign ministers discussed further ...

Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum are the subject of growing concern about their energy consumption and potential impact on climate change. Why do some cryptocurrencies use so much energy, ...

Japan's Tokyo Electric Power Co said on Wednesday that levels of cooling water at the No.2 reactor of its Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant are recovering smoothly. Cooling functions at the ...

Search teams in flood-ravaged areas of Colorado have accounted for all but a half dozen people, down from hundreds initially reported missing in the disaster nearly two weeks ago, and authorities on ...

In the depths of India's illegal mica mines, where children as young as five work alongside adults, lurks a dark, hidden secret - the cover-up of child deaths with seven killed in the past two months, ...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Stoning, a form of execution where a group throws stones at a person until they are dead, still happens in parts of the Muslim world, mostly as a punishment for ...

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 ...

In the dead of night, as wild animals howled nearby, Syrian migrant Aras Mahmoud clung to his children as they slept on damp grass in the Bulgarian mountains en route to Serbia, praying that his ...

TBILISI, May 5 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Coronavirus lockdowns mean poor people without internet access are being further marginalised, researchers and rights groups said on Tuesday, urging ...

NEW YORK, May 28 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Multinational companies will increasingly file massive cases against host countries when climate change policies affect their profits, Nobel ...

George Floyd’s death has sent shockwaves around the world, including in Britain. By now, we’ve all seen at least one of the images or videos of his killing. It was shocking. It’s hard to imagine ...

Massive swarms of desert locusts are invading east Africa, ravaging crops, decimating pasture and deepening a food crisis in a region where more than 25 million people are already hungry. Desert ...