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The effort shows how funds to help families during the pandemic could also help prepare for the next big threat: climate change. ISLAMABAD, April 28 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When construction worker Abdul Rahman lost his job to Pakistan's coronavirus lockdown, his choices looked stark: resort to begging on the streets or let his family go hungry. But the government has now…

Coronavirus has driven Western retailers such as ASOS, Gap and Primark to pause or cancel orders, threatening an industry that employs about 60 million garment workers globally. LONDON/DHAKA/CHENNAI, April 30 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The livelihoods of millions of Asian garment workers are in jeopardy after cancellations by top fashion brands, with unions, researchers and campaigners…

The worst drought in 50 years in northeast Argentina is hitting hydropower and tourism and threatening drinking water. BUENOS AIRES, April 29 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - At Iguazu Falls, a World Heritage site and one of South America's tourist highlights, crowds normally gather in the drifting spray of 275 spectacular waterfalls, spread in an arc around them on the border between Argentina and…

The design field is at an inflection point. It must challenge its repertoire, rethink technology, and begin to see biodiversity as a building block of urban environments. Julia Watson’s lush and meticulous new book, Lo—TEK: Design by Radical Indigenism, provides a blueprint for sustainable architecture in the 21st century. For designers of the built environment, it is a first-ever compendium of…

The world’s 7.6 billion residents are facing an unmitigated and unprecedented fight against a global public health emergency. The spread of COVID-19 across the globe has led to never-before-experienced lockdown situations – which in turn are having a significant impact across agricultural systems – threatening food security for increasing numbers of people around the world.

International experts have advised the World Health Organization (WHO) to work to identify the animal origins of the virus behind the COVID-19 pandemic and its transmission to humans, the UN agency said on Friday. The recommendation was among the outcomes of the latest meeting of the Emergency Committee on the new disease, established under global health regulations. …