Durban's climate goals are bold - but its poor feel left behind

South Africa’s seaside metropolis, hard hit by unemployment and rising climate risks, is aiming for net-zero emissions. Can it achieve its goal while aiding the most vulnerable?

Concern over 'chemsex' grows as COVID-19 shuts Thailand's LGBT+ bars

People who attend chemsex parties face health risks including overdoses, addiction and HIV infection, campaigners say

Fossil fuel giants and banks under fire for rise in single-use plastics

With a projected surge in production of throwaway plastic, a new index spotlights the companies making the raw ingredient from oil and gas and the banks funding them

Ditch new fossil fuel spending to reach net zero emissions - IEA

To meet global temperature goals, the International Energy Agency says there should be no investment in new fossil fuel projects and massive deployment of renewable energy will be needed

U.S. Supreme Court takes up major challenge to abortion rights

The case could gut Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion nationwide in 1973

Supreme Court jumps into U.S. culture wars with abortion, gun cases

Decisions to take up highly political cases puts rights of millions of Americans on the line

Concern over nature loss surging in developing nations, online trends show

Research shows harm to nature - whether extinction, deforestation or over-fishing - and efforts to stop it are grabbing more attention on digital media, particularly in Asia

Europe's LGBT+ Prides swap parties for politics due to COVID-19

Pride organisers have been eyeing a return to the streets, but persistent curbs and concerns about a third wave are prompting them to scale back their plans

Activists and South African gov't face off in court over coal pollution

Failure to act violates S.Africa's constitution, campaigners say

African rainforests slow climate change despite record heat, drought

Rainforests in six African countries found to be more resistant to extra heat and drought than tropical forests in the Amazon and Southeast Asia

Strippers are back on the job but COVID rules are hurting their pay

Strip clubs are starting to re-open, but workers see more woes ahead as distancing rules put private dances off-limits

OPINION: Imagine the potential of trans people if you just let us be ourselves

If we didn't have to spend so much time surviving and fighting, we would thrive

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