'It's about putting more businesses down here': Youth hope to stay in sinking Louisiana delta
As the coast retreats, young people in Plaquemines Parish say they'd like to live their adult lives on the quiet peninsula, but worry it could be abandoned
'My country first' threatens global goals with US, China, Russia lagging-report
Nationalism and protectionism are impeding implementation of global development goals, while industrialized countries are failing to serve as role models
Climate change may turn Africa's arid Sahel green - researchers
"The sheer size of the possible change is mindboggling," says one scientist
UK supermarket urged not to axe Fairtrade label on tea by charities
Sainsbury's is the world's largest retailer of Fairtrade products
Daughter of murdered Honduran activist Berta Caceres escapes attack
Activists said they believed the attack was related to their work campaigning against mega-projects such as dams and logging on ancestral land
Indian farmers giving up land face fewer jobs, lower incomes
Conflicts over land have risen as demand for industrial use increases, affecting millions of people and jeopardising billions of dollars of investment
FACTBOX-A $50 billion wish list to keep Louisiana coast above water
Southern Louisiana, under siege from rising sea levels, subsiding land and coastal erosion, is losing thousands of acres of wetlands to the encroaching Gulf of Mexico each year
'Our culture is dying': Rising waters menace more than land in Louisiana
Cajun culture is slowly disappearing, as people move away from southern Louisiana, faced with growing flood risks
FEATURE-Fight, flee, or wait and see? Locals face hard choices as Louisiana coast recedes
Some 120,000 people live on the shrinking lowlands south of New Orleans - but getting their attention to looming environmental threats is no easy task
Over half of migrants uprooted from West and Central Africa are children - U.N.
"I went to try to provide for my mother ... I was beaten with sticks, with lead pipes and with a motorcycle chain. Every day they beat me and demanded money."