Bottled water giants back new global plan to cut plastic waste
Millions of tonnes of food packaging and bottles end up in landfills and oceans each year - which the initiative aims to reduce
Mistrust hampers food industry's climate ambitions
Agriculture is the second-largest sector for greenhouse gas emissions, trailing only energy
Britain's May urges world leaders to act on modern slavery
May will pledge 10 million pounds to stop children being exploited in Africa and pledge a new international anti-slavery envoy
Botswana joins the 10 latest countries to decriminalise gay sex
Botswana's High Court overturned a colonial-era ban on gay sex on Tuesday
Lebanon sees migrant domestic workers as 'less than human' - filmmaker
The film looks at migrant workers under Lebanon's kafala sponsorship system, which binds them to one employer
Armed with maps and music, Nigeria's slum dwellers fight evictions
Many residents live in waterfront areas, on land with prime real-estate value and have no official housing documentation - making them especially vulnerable to evictions
France to uphold ban on sale of fossil fuel cars by 2040
France - which has a large car manufacturing industry - says it will help producers switch to electricity, hydrogen and possibly biogas
Sardinia hit by worst locust invasion for 70 years
The locusts have devastated animal grazing pastures covering some 2,500 hectares of land
Japan adopts long-term emissions strategy under Paris Agreement
The plan set goals of becoming carbon-neutral soon after 2050 but did not include detailed plans for phasing out coal power
Trash for teaching: Indian students hope to set example on plastic recycling
A school has asked pupils to bring in at least 20 pieces of plastic waste every week in exchange for free schooling