The United Nations appealed on Friday to the Saudi-led military coalition to fully lift its blockade of Yemen, saying up to eight million people were "right on the brink of famine". Earlier this week ...

Climate change is warming seas and melting glaciers, slowing raising sea level around the world. That is threatening everything from low-lying islands to coastal communities, which are being hit with ...

Climate change is bringing more severe floods, droughts and other extreme weather around the globe. What can be done to cut the risks?

A fire broke out on an atomic-powered submarine undergoing repairs at a shipyard near Russia's eastern coastal city of Vladivostok on Monday, but naval officials said there was no risk of a radiation ...

Bamako residents living near the city's river on Thursday (August 29) attempted to rescue what they could after flash floods killed at least 24 and devastated nearby neighborhoods, claiming people's ...

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, ...

NAIROBI, Oct 14 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Until a year ago, it would take Pamela Auma a whole month to prepare the land on her farm in western Kenya for planting ahead of the rainy season. With ...

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 ...

As growing parts of the world grapple with unprecedented heatwaves, cities are on the frontline of efforts to keep people safe MEDELLIN, Colombia, July 28 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Street vendor ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...