OPINION: Five hopes for a more equitable, resilient and sustainable 2022
The world’s cities are taking the initiative on a range of environmental and social problems, from climate change adaptation to access to affordable food
Churches lead U.S. urban farming drive to tackle pandemic hunger
Hunger, high prices and economic instability are driving local efforts to boost food security.
Red tape, conflict stop Uganda's herders moving to cope with climate change
As the country suffers worsening droughts and floods, pastoralists move to survive – but the increasing need for official permission to travel across grasslands is rooting many of them in place
Freestyle skiing Kenworthy urges IOC to consider host's human rights stance
Rights groups have long criticised the IOC's choice of Beijing as 2022 host, and several countries including the United States and Britain mounted diplomatic boycotts to protest China's treatment of its minority Muslim Uyghur population
No evidence some COVID-19 vaccines increase risk of HIV infection
Over the past few weeks, Reuters has debunked a series of misleading and false claims about COVID-19 vaccination efforts and HIV.
Figure skating-American LeDuc makes history as first non-binary Winter Olympian
A record number of openly LGBTQ+ athletes are competing at the Winter Olympics - at least 36, or double the number from Pyeongchang in 2018 - according to LGBTQ+ news site Outsports.
Hundreds of Salesforce employees object to NFT plans
After Salesforce announced a foray into the NFT market, hundreds of workers revolted, raising environmental and fraud concerns
U.S. urged to ban Thai fishing net suppliers using prison labour
An investigation by the Thomson Reuters Foundation last year found Thai prisoners were being forced to make fishing nets for private companies - including one that exported to the United States
Posts saying straight people are more at risk of HIV infection misrepresent data
In proportion to the population size of those who identify as gay or bisexual men, LGBTQ+ people remain at elevated risk of contracting the virus.
Tree-clearing criminals fuel Colombia's wildfire surge
Government officials are hunting suspects accused of setting wildfires – but genuinely slowing rising deforestation will require a more proactive government presence in threatened areas, analysts warn