With colour-coded warnings, Indian city gets serious about dirty air
"Air pollution is a major risk, and unless we have data we cannot devise ways to control it ... But what good is collecting data if we just keep it in the office and don't use it?"
Dirty water use puts nearly a billion at risk - study
Crops covering an area roughly the size of Germany are irrigated with water from rivers and lakes polluted by urban sewage discharge
Frigoríficos suspeitos: "lavagem de gado" provoca aumento de desmatamento na Amazônia
O desmatamento de áreas para pastagens é responsável por 80% da destruição florestal na Amazônia
Shady slaughterhouses, 'cow laundering' drive spike in Amazon deforestation
The clearance of land for cattle pasture is responsible for 80 percent of the forest destruction in the Amazon
INTERVIEW-Traffickers find new ways to smuggle girls from India's remote northeast
India's underdeveloped northeast is a hub for sex traffickers to source girls for brothels in Mumbai and Delhi. But cases of trafficking for labour to other countries are growing
Indian women don cow masks to show they are less safe than cattle
"If we can protect cows, then why not women?"
Drought-hit Ethiopia moves to protect its dwindling forests
Forests can provide more stable water, harvests and jobs - but rural population growth make protecting them a challenge, officials say
Bangladesh garment factory blast raises fresh concerns over workers' safety
"The accident shows that process started after Rana Plaza is far from over and reforms need to be expedited"
FEATURE-Disaster recovery loans help Kenyans beat weather shocks
“Aid of this nature is good because it has helped me stabilise my life"
FEATURE-Afghanistan's female lawyers risk danger to help women branded 'cheap and filthy'
Maliha was convicted of being a prostitute and spent years in a women's prison, until lawyer Mahdis Doost came to her defense