Cities experiment with big ideas to confront 'climate emergency'

Around the world, front-runner cities from Bristol to Barcelona are testing new ways to cut their emissions faster - and improve quality of life

Featured in: Zero Carbon Cities

Gambia's labouring farmers show why premature births may boom in a warmer world

As climate change brings more heat extremes, researchers are tracking the risks facing Gambia's pregnant farmers and their babies

Featured in: Health and climate change

Green transport set to overtake cars in world's major cities by 2030

Many authorities are looking to discourage private car journeys, while a boom in bike-sharing schemes and electric-powered small vehicles are giving residents new ways to get around

Featured in: Sustainable transport

Satellite data brings farming advice to remote areas of Zimbabwe

When roads are bad and extension agents few, technology can help get farmers the information they need to deal with climate shifts and other threats, backers say

Featured in: Farmers adapt to climate change

Brazil sees week of 'attacks' on indigenous rights - congresswoman

A push to open indigenous land to mining, and the appointment of a former missionary to handle uncontacted tribes has provoked anger

Featured in: Forests and climate change

Climate change could spark 'global systemic crisis', scientists warn

Failure to act on climate-related threats could create a "potentially uncontrollable situation in the future if we don't act very soon"

Featured in: Disaster risk reduction

Gotta catch 'em all: Pokemon-style app aims to save Indonesia's forests

Game app lets users score points and win status levels by confirming satellite data on the ground

Featured in: Forests and climate change

Don't call me 'Greta': Young climate activists demand to be heard

"If you call me Greta of India, you are not covering my story. You are deleting a story," says 8-year-old climate campaigner Licypriya Kangujam

Featured in: Youth action on climate change

Britain urged to lead by example for successful UN climate summit

Creating a detailed plan to get to net-zero emissions by 2050, and making sure new trade deals are climate smart would be first steps, analysts say

Featured in: Setting the stage for COP26

Climate change seen causing 'mass extinction' of bumblebees

Bumblebee declines at rates 'consistent with a mass extinction' threaten food cultivation

Scrap by scrap, New York designer creates fashion from waste

From a storefront studio in Brooklyn, Daniel Silverstein creates clothing from bits and bolts of leftover cloth, with an eye to using, reusing and recycling all that he can

Featured in: Sustainable fashion

* Feel free to republish the stories above as long as credit is given to the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

Rising seas threaten to drown U.S. airports by 2100

A rise of one meter in sea levels would swamp an estimated 80 airports around the world by 2100, researchers found

Featured in: Sea level rise

Bangkok court halts river promenade project that would worsen flooding

Bangkok is the world's most visited city, and developers have turned to the riverside to lure more visitors, building malls and converting old warehouses into cafes and art galleries

Art and technology expose 'hidden inequalities' in cities

Drone images highlighting stark housing differences can help cities combat entrenched inequalities, says artist

Malaysian palm oil group urges industry to tap tech to save forests

Palm oil is used in a wide range of products and is under scrutiny because the producers in Indonesia and Malaysia have in the past cleared forests to make way for oil palm cultivation

Heavy rains bring both relief and new dangers to bushfire-hit Australia

The weekend drenching represents the biggest sustained run of rainfall in Sydney and surrounding areas for 30 years

Brazil authorizes national security force to fight deforestation

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon doubled in January compared with the same month a year ago

OPINION: City leaders need to rise to the climate change challenge

As national governments struggle to agree on climate action, city leaders need to show they can rise to the challenge

OPINION: My erasure from a news agency photograph of climate activists at Davos went viral - this is why it matters

Across Africa, the climate crisis is happening to us now, and the stories Africans have to tell are urgent - but who is listening?

Featured in: Youth action on climate change

OPINION: City leaders must prioritize climate resilience of vulnerable communities

More than 880 million people worldwide now live in informal settlements, which often lack even basic services like electricity and clean water