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Climate activists march to demand stronger global commitments to fight plastic waste in Busan, South Korea, November 23, 2024. REUTERS/Minwoo Park

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Plastic pollution is surging, so what are governments doing?

Protesters hold LGBT rights rainbow (pride) flags as activists gather outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, U.S., December 5, 2022. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

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Is gay marriage in the US at risk?

Visitors look down over the Navajo Loop Trail in Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah, U.S. July 1, 2025. REUTERS/Kaylee Greenlee

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How will Trump's 'big, beautiful' bill affect climate change?

Internally displaced people walk to the Virunga National Park in Kibati, North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of the Congo July 12, 2024. REUTERS/Arlette Bashizi

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How DRC's oil push could affect climate change

A man sits on a street in Skid Row, Los Angeles, California, U.S., December 9, 2024. REUTERS/Daniel Cole

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What are Trump's plans to tackle rising homelessness?

Burned vegetation is seen next to a beach, as a wildfire burns near the village of Kiotari, on the island of Rhodes, Greece, July 24, 2023. REUTERS/Lefteris Damianidis

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Why are heatwaves getting worse?

Environmental activist rally against a bill known as the 'devastation bill' after the Senate approved the project that creates the General Environmental Licensing Law (PL 2159/2021), which relaxes the requirements for companies that exploit environmental resources and threatens protected biomes in Sao Paulo, Brazil, June 1, 2025. REUTERS/Tuane Fernandes

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How Brazil's 'devastation bill' puts Amazon at risk of deforestation

Japan's Sanseito party leader Sohei Kamiya delivers a speech during the party’s rally in Tokyo, Japan, July 21, 2025, a day after the upper house election. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon

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Will rising right in Japan election block same-sex marriage?

An environmental activist takes part in a protest to urge world leaders to commit to a strong climate finance deal during the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29), in Baku, Azerbaijan November 16, 2024. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

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Can climate lawsuits slow global warming?

Domestic helpers line up for remittance services inside World Wide Plaza at the financial Central district in Hong Kong, China September 2, 2018. REUTERS/Bobby Yip

How will planned US tax on remittances hit poor countries?

Residents use pipes to fill their containers with drinking water from a water tanker during a hot day in New Delhi, India, June 13, 2024. REUTERS/Priyanshu Singh

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Why India's heat action plans aren't cooling cities

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How Latam-GPT is building culturally relevant AI for the region

Lucy stands in the hallway of her new apartment in Amsterdam's De Pijp neighbourhood, which she shares with her partner, Alex. The two are still unpacking after their move, 12 July 2025. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Ingrid Gercama

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Going Dutch: LGBTQ+ Americans find Trump-free life in Netherlands

Women dry fish at Tagburos village, in Puerto Princesa, Palawan, Philippines, November 22, 2022. REUTERS/Eloisa Lopez

Philippines' 'last ecological frontier' battles demand for nickel

A person holds a phone showing a screenshot of the AI art app Girl. July 16. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Adam Smith

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A man looks at air conditioners outside a discount electronics store at a shopping district in Tokyo, Japan, April 28, 2015. REUTERS/Yuya Shino

The air conditioning dilemma: Cooling homes heats the planet

People who were evacuated from their homes near the Line of Control (LoC) between India and Pakistan following cross-border shelling, wait as authorities stopped them returning to their villages until the areas are cleared of unexploded ordnance, after the ceasefire between the two countries, in Gantamulla in Indian Kashmir's Baramulla district May 11, 2025. REUTERS/Stringer

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