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 ...

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Sept 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Protests have broken out across Iran over the death of a woman held by morality police for "unsuitable attire", with activists warning of worse to come as the ...

Cafe owner Ozge Kiris sitting outside her venue, Vacilando Cafe, in Istanbul, Turkey, June 2022, Thomson Reuters Foundation/Beril Eski ISTANBUL, July 25 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As the tourist ...

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 ...

Disasters have cost an average of about $170 billion each year in the last decade but developing nations and their poorest people suffering disproportionately KUALA LUMPUR, April 26 (Thomson Reuters ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

BRUSSELS, Oct 1 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Fear of multi-billion-euro lawsuits from fossil fuel investors is putting the Paris agreement on climate change at risk, one of the deal's architects has ...