Saudi women barrel into workforce in changing kingdom
The gender pay gap in Saudi Arabia stands at 49% and some employers still ask women for their male guardian's approval during the job hiring process
Coal in the crosshairs as UN climate summit stirs clean energy pledges
The pledges are meant to help speed a transition to cleaner forms of energy but could also highlight lingering divisions between wealthy nations and poorer developing countries that rely on coal
A father and son's Ice Age plot to slow Siberian thaw
Permafrost covers 65% of Russia's landmass, and scientists say that greenhouse gas emissions from its thaw could eventually match or even exceed the EU's industrial emission
Clutching graveyard crosses, hundreds protest violence against women in Mexico
Some 762 women were murdered between January and September this year, a 5% rise from the same period in 2020
Climate change extremes spur U.N. plan to fund weather forecasting
Over the next decade, organizers at the U.N.'s World Meteorological Organization (WMO) plan to boost weather monitoring in 75 small island nations and least-developed countries that have done little to cause the climate crisis
South African author Damon Galgut wins Booker Prize
"It's taken a long while to get here and now that I have, I kind of feel that I shouldn't be here", said South African author Damon Galgut
Ensuring indigenous rights seen as key as forest carbon investments grow
As more companies seek to offset their emissions through forests, indigenous rights must be at the top of the agenda, campaigners say in Glasgow
With no tickets to COP26 talks, climate activists take to Glasgow streets
Unable to get passes or tickets to enter the main COP26 venues, Fridays for Future and Extinction Rebellion protesters are raising their voices in other ways
Forget net-zero: meet the small-nation, carbon-negative club
Forested Bhutan, Suriname and Panama now absorb more emissions than they produce. Can other countries join them?
Could a small Arab state hold the key to net zero emissions?
Oman's ample stores of peridotite rock could lock away huge volumes of planet-warming carbon, but backers say a price on carbon is needed to make the project viable