Deaths prompt Nepal to offer cash to women who shun 'menstrual huts'
The one-off payment aims to break customs where women are banished to huts while they are on their period
Climate activist Greta Thunberg reaches Lisbon on way to Madrid summit
Thunberg is due to join thousands of activists marching in Madrid on Friday afternoon on the fringes of the U.N. climate summit
UN to deliver food aid to 4.1 mln in Zimbabwe, fears 'major crisis'
Zimbabwe is experiencing an economic crisis, marked by soaring inflation and shortages of food, fuel, medicines and electricity
Fighting fire with... volunteers? Indonesia ramps up community fire brigades as tropical forests burn
Thousands of farmers have been trained to fight fires in a project aimed at saving tropical forests and carbon-rich peatlands in Indonesia
Climate change hits health, yet funds lacking - WHO
'WHO considers that climate change is potentially the greatest health threat of the 21st Century'
Earth's temperature likely marks hottest decade on record - report
An annual report launched at a climate summit in Spain paints a bleak picture of vanishing sea ice, devastating heatwaves and encroaching seas
OPINION: It is time to act on the climate emergency
And the only acceptable response is ending the use of fossil fuels
Trading water: Can water shares help save California's aquifers?
'If you can buy and sell stocks, why not trade water? It's an asset, we can't live without it'
In China, coal creeps back in as slowing economy overshadows climate change ambitions
China has built 42.9 gigawatts of new coal-fired power capacity since the start of last year, with another 121 GW under construction
Climate accord will fuel U.S. jobs, business and labor leaders say
Trump has argued the Paris deal would cost the U.S. trillions of dollars, kill millions of jobs and hinder the oil, gas, coal and manufacturing industries