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?

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 ...

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 ...

The Thomson Reuters Foundation produces award-winning documentaries on a range of themes, from environmental and climate change issues to women's rights, human trafficking and slavery, property rights ...

DHAKA, May 9 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Twelve-year-old Alamin's house rested on the bank of the Ilsha river in southern Bangladesh until last year, when the surging river eroded it and the family ...

KUALA LUMPUR, May 2 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The damaged furniture and mud-caked walls left by floodwaters have now been replaced or cleaned in Elizabeth Chong's family home, but lost forever ...

A new AI-based study compares cities' trees and lakes to how much concrete they have, to gauge their ability to respond to climate shocks DURBAN, March 24 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As climate ...

WAYANAD DISTRICT, India, Feb 4 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - P. K. Madhavan stood proudly next to a young, sturdy mahogany tree, one of a hundred he planted three years ago on his farm in Wayanad ...

As countries mull whether to ban, regulate or embrace digital coins and climate activists mount an increasingly vocal opposition to the energy-intensive sector, we asked crypto experts their ...

BANGKOK, Dec 22 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Cambodia's central bank launched a pilot for a digital payment system in July 2019, its aim was to increase financial inclusion in the country and ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 2 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A new pledge by world leaders to halt deforestation by 2030 is likely to fail unless quickly backed by more funding, transparent monitoring and tough ...

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 ...