COVID-19 is changing economies by forcing companies to cut pay for low-paid sectors as staff are laid off, and many women are forced to look after children or elderly relatives.
A new commission reports on the lives of children around the world - suggesting plenty of work is needed.
With climate change threatening food supply in Senegal, these farmers are turning to agroecology, in the form of planting trees on farms, diversifying crops and their rotation and using o...
A new study finds that 85% of the world's wine-growing regions will be threatened if global warming reaches 4C, with Italy, Spain and Australia hardest hit.
Population growth, more intense rainfall and melting ice are likely to cause more frequent and severe floods.
This Kenya-based developer wants to make their games more than just a bit of fun - mixing in messages on the importance of the climate, conservation and culture.
Seven of the top 10 countries with the highest displacement by proportion of their population were developing island states, largely in the Pacific and the Caribbean, the report found.
Towns were evacuated and hundreds of residents told to flee as a record number of emergency-level bushfires raged across two Australian states.
With population growth, illegal logging and overuse of its waters by communities struggling through drought, the Mara river levels have dropped to unsustainable levels. Here's what new te...
From lowering city speed limits to classes on mindfulness, urban areas all over the world are seeking ways to reduce noise pollution, in an aim to improve health and wellbeing.
Developing countries like Namibia and Kiribati export more than 90% of their fish to Europe and China, while their citizens lack essential vitamins.
Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge said they hoped Wednesday's visit to Chitral in Pakistan would help them better understand the challenges residents were facing from mel...
Aid agency Concern Worldwide has said that progress towards a 2030 zero hunger target was "under threat or is being reversed".
Aarey Colony, known as the Indian city's "green lung", is under threat for new plans for a subway, where thousands of trees are due to be cut down, which has brought out hundreds of prote...
According to the Barcelona-based We Are Water Foundation, among Ethiopia's population of more than 100 million, about 42 million people do not have access to safe drinking water. Furtherm...
