In the 1870 Jules Verne classic "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea", underwater explorer Captain Nemo predicted the mining of the ocean floor's mineral bounty - zinc, iron, silver and gold.

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 ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 23 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When labor inspectors arrived in a rural area of the Brazilian Amazon state of Para in late June, they expected to rescue illegal loggers ...

MUMBAI, Oct 18 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Investing in clean energy can help economies recover from the slowdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic as it will add more jobs than backing fossil ...

The country's last asbestos mining town needs to move its economy to a stronger footing, as the carcinogen is banned in a growing number of places - can the rare earths needed for a green ...

That is why libertarians, conservatives and climate leaders must unite behind lawsuits to protect those rights ...

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 ...

The factory will be the first of its kind in Africa and aims to produce enough plastic bricks to build 500 classrooms by 2021 (Amends UNICEF Ivory Coast communication head title in paragraph 6) By ...

What we choose to eat, how we move around and how these activities contribute to climate change is receiving a lot of media attention. In this context, greenhouse gas emissions from livestock and ...

Most countries are at high risk of using slave labour in their supply chains, with North Korea ranked worst in the world By Lin Taylor LONDON, Aug 11 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Almost 60 ...

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 ...

Bani Chaosuwanphan stands outside her home that was built under Baan Mankong, a low-cost housing programme to resettle communities living by canals in Bangkok, Thailand. April 1, 2021. Thomson ...