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Gravity lightens the load for Nepal's hard-working rural women

...the mountains but sometimes struggle to reach markets. "Lack of transpotation was a major constraint in marketing them," she said. Cable systems "have aided in taking these products to the market with...

4 Apr 2019

Gravity lightens the load for Nepal's hard-working rural women

News / Cities

Cities hastily add pandemics to long list of 21st-century threats

...t of imminent threats for the majority of cities they had worked with, before this year. "Often our plans and strategies respond to the shock that is in our most recent memory, and that's what motivat...

19 May 2020

Cities hastily add pandemics to long list of 21st-century threats

News / Carbon & Climate

Children suffering eco-anxiety over climate change, say psychologists

...t of the time adults want to protect children from frightening things, but if we protect them too much then we are actually lying to them," she said. But adults should not overwhelm children with too ...

20 Sep 2019

Children suffering eco-anxiety over climate change, say psychologists

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

The Amazon is burning: 4 essential reads on Brazil’s vanishing rainforest

...tate, Leal realized that the informal “bridges” of this locally built transportation network must be impacting Amazonian waterways. So she decided to study that, too. “We found that makeshift road cro...

27 Aug 2019

The Amazon is burning: 4 essential reads on Brazil’s vanishing rainforest

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Violence against women is blocking development

...t. It didn’t matter that the woman had been raped and subsequently obstructed by the local clinic staff from receiving an abortion — care guaranteed by the CTOP act. It didn’t matter that her constitu...

25 Feb 2020

Violence against women is blocking development

News / Energy

Vietnam has only weeks left to get its wind market back on track

...ts to Vietnam’s power master plan. The law was meant to spur the government to set forth a strategic vision for Vietnam’s energy production, distribution and consumption that better reflects current c...

23 Mar 2020

Vietnam has only weeks left to get its wind market back on track

News / Policy & Finance

EU trade threat could make Cambodian factories worse for workers—unions

...tic Union. At Thon pointed to the Better Factories Cambodia (BFC) initiative - a project of the UN's International Labour Organization that since 2001 has held all exporting garment factories to a pre...

15 Feb 2019

EU trade threat could make Cambodian factories worse for workers—unions

News / Cities

'No man's land': Delhi's urban villages face uncertain future

...ttempt to integrate them into the master plan will need to protect them from land grabs, and be a careful, informed process that looks at class stratification and historical marginalisation," she told...

12 May 2020

'No man's land': Delhi's urban villages face uncertain future

News / Cities

From food to tech, coronavirus to spur urban planning rethink

...titute of Development Studies Catalysts This would not be the first time that an epidemic has led to changes in city planning, research shows. The cholera outbreaks of the 1830s led to better sanita...

20 Mar 2020

From food to tech, coronavirus to spur urban planning rethink

News / Policy & Finance

Why the shutdown of the Philippines’ largest TV network is a blow to environmental journalism

...tragedy that Filipinos won’t be able to watch them anymore if we don’t get our franchise back.” In complying with the government’s order, the broadcaster said in a statement that it “trusts that the g...

11 May 2020

Why the shutdown of the Philippines’ largest TV network is a blow to environmental journalism

News / Food & Agriculture

How committed are companies to sustainable palm oil?

...t getting the requests to submit. But it is alarming that even those that have submitted are not making progress at all. That there are laggard, sleeping members who are sitting in the RSPO but aren't...

10 May 2019

How committed are companies to sustainable palm oil?

News / Waste

Food for... trash? India's first 'garbage cafe' to offer meals for plastic

...tate started providing free schooling to students in exchange for plastic waste. This story was published with permission from Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that c...

25 Jul 2019

Food for... trash? India's first 'garbage cafe' to offer meals for plastic

News / Cities

Cities need to grow up—not out—to survive, researchers warn

...t the institute's Ross Center for Sustainable Cities. When cities grow at the behest of developers rather than guided by policy, she said, the result is development at the periphery. That eats into ag...

1 Feb 2019

Cities need to grow up—not out—to survive, researchers warn

Research / Cloudasset

Building a digital water management system for Thailand

...thing that has been seen in the past. This is real quantitative evidence that climate change is having an effect and an important reminder that effective management of the water, as well as other nat...

18 Feb 2020

Building a digital water management system for Thailand

News / Waste

If the Philippines banned waste imports, why is it still the world's dumping ground?

...t waste that went to other Southeast Asian countries persist at the same level." China abruptly banned trash imports from 2018 to cut back on heavy pollution. This left Southeast Asian countries to pi...

11 Mar 2020

If the Philippines banned waste imports, why is it still the world's dumping ground?

Opinion / Water

Water can exacerbate inequality—or it can help solve it

...ter security. The gap between those countries able to manage drought, flooding, and dirty water and those with little capacity to do so is also widening, with the potential to deteriorate as climate c...

25 Mar 2019

Water can exacerbate inequality—or it can help solve it

News / Energy

Bangladesh seen as climate threat by boosting coal reliance

...try said it would expand its coal sector to meet rising needs but the report said there was still time to pull back as most of the plants were just plans on paper. It said developed countries that are...

7 Nov 2019

Bangladesh seen as climate threat by boosting coal reliance

News / Cities

Asian cities urged to guard cultural heritage as they modernise

...Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news, climate change, resilience, women’s rights, trafficking and property rights. Visit http://news.trust.o...

21 Oct 2019

Asian cities urged to guard cultural heritage as they modernise

News / Policy & Finance

More than 11 million face eviction, displacement as India booms

...tion that kicks off Thursday. The main opposition Congress party, in its manifesto, has promised the urban poor the right to housing and "protection from arbitrary eviction". It also committed to end ...

10 Apr 2019

More than 11 million face eviction, displacement as India booms

Dr Ashley Brooks has worked on one of the world's most ambitious conservation projects - to double the population of wild tigers by 2022. Image: Ashley Brooks

News / Carbon & Climate

24 hours with... WWF tiger conservationist Dr Ashley Brooks

...tion site visits, and conducting meetings with government officials and community groups. But that part of the job is almost impossible at the moment. Brooks is stuck at home in his native Australia (...

14 May 2020

24 hours with... WWF tiger conservationist Dr Ashley Brooks

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