At least forty people were killed and at least 120 people were wounded in an explosion at a weapons cache in the central Syrian city of Homs on Thursday, a group ...

As expanding technology and infrastructure fuel global demand for resources, manufacturing powerhouses India and China, are eyeing the ocean ...

The war in Ukraine shows the high stakes risk of concentrating food production to just a few countries – the latest in a series of overlapping food crises ...

Large gaps in rates of employment, education, and earnings persist across races, says San Francisco Federal Reserve president Sept 8 (Reuters) - Racial and ethnic inequities have cost the U.S ...

Report stops short of advocating going meat-free, but says dietary changes, featuring plant-based foods and sustainable animal-sourced food, could free up land and ...

In a 2012 file photo, a boy plays on a rainbow flag during a gay pride march in Manila. REUTERS/Cheryl Ravelo While doing research for an LGBT rights project, I was intrigued when I came across a ...

Although laws allowing slavery have been scrapped worldwide, many of the 193 U.N. member states have not gone on to explicitly criminalise slavery ...

Bakong enables even users without a bank account to make payments and transfers through a mobile app By Rina Chandran BANGKOK, Dec 22 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Cambodia's central bank ...

TIME - AND TIPS - LOST Two Toters drivers shared a list of working conditions they had received in September that stated: "A driver cannot refuse an order for any reason." The instructions said ...

Many countries could see significant falls in GDP by 2030 if they fail to better conserve biodiversity and natural systems ...

What it will take to build a food system that is not only healthy and sustainable for the planet, but also recognises the critical role of smallholder producers in ...

As climate change drives worsening U.S. wildfires, federal firefighters say they are underpaid - and some are leaving (Fixes typo in paragraph 12) By Avi Asher-Schapiro and David Sherfinski LOS ...