Context provides news and analysis on three of the world’s most critical issues: Extreme weather and sea level rise related to climate change are leading to worsening losses and damages, financial and ...

Context provides news and analysis on three of the world’s most critical issues: In many parts of the world, more intense rainfall is bringing worse flooding. What can be done to ease the problem?

In Petorca, in Chile's Valparaiso region, local people and small avocado farmers say the arrival of big commercial avocado companies more than a decade ago has led to increasingly severe water ...

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A girl and her brother sit in a cave shelter in Tess village in the rebel-held territory of the Nuba Mountains in South Kordofan, on May 2, 2012. Fleeing aerial bombardment by the Sudanese air force, ...

KUALA LUMPUR, May 11 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - One decade after an earthquake killed almost 70,000 people, China's investment in disaster preparedness means a similar tragedy is unlikely, said ...

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, ...

A box of vegetables is displayed at a 900 square meters farm garden on the rooftop of a postal sorting center, as part of a project by Facteur Graine (Seed Postman) association to transform a city ...

The technology allows slumdwellers and rural villagers with simple mobile phones to effectively create their own local currencies to bootstrap development LONDON, Nov 26 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - ...

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 ...

BANGKOK, July 16 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Phatsanee Phutkaew lost nearly everything she owned 10 years ago when her modest canalside home in Bangkok was damaged by Thailand's worst floods in ...