'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."
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
Denied US visas, all-girl Afghan robotics team to watch their creation compete via Skype
Unusual story of the Afghan all-girl team has emerged as the US grapples with the legality of President Donald Trump's order to temporarily ban travel from six Muslim-majority countries
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