SE Asia seeks new strategy to fight "slash and burn" haze problem
Palm oil plantation owners use cheap and easy slash-and-burn techniques to clear forests to meet rising global demand
How to stop deforestation? Make 'good stuff' cheaper
The world can meet goals to protect forests if companies and governments drive shift to sustainable commodities
Colombia's last nomadic tribe in despair at loss of culture
Armed rebels forced tribe off their ancestral homelands into the modern world, driving many to drug abuse and even suicide
Bombs, shells especially deadly for women, children in Syrian war-research
"If we are looking for root causes of the migrant and refugee crises in Europe today, this is surely a major contributor" - report
No money for contraceptives, safe births for Burundi refugees at new camps
Thousands of Burundian refugees risk unwanted pregnancies, dangerous deliveries when they move to new refugee camps
Photojournalists get down to business in Albania
How photographers can make money was just one question posed by a Thomson Reuters Foundation workshop in Tirana
Solar-powered cars spark South Africans' interest in clean tech
Solar race cars are promoting renewable energy in southern Africa
Involve Afghan women in crucial talks with the Taliban, urges HRW
Afghan women are still exchanged to settle disputes amongst families and suffer high levels of violence
To build a greener economy, Bhutan wants to go organic by 2020
Bhutan is supporting organic farming to cut emissions and waste and to maintain its carbon neutrality
Homophobic mobs attack LGBT people in Kenya with impunity - report
Victims fear reporting hate crimes to police who, in turn, often refuse to pursue their cases