A report on a fund designed to help the Midlands recover from the closure of peat-fired power stations found just one-sixth of the hoped-for jobs materialised.

UNI report on extreme weather x cleaners & security workers; heat stress x garment workers in Cambodia; home-based workers & informal workers in South Asia; EUTI magazine; book “Workers and the World”

Cambodia’s factory workers measured the temperatures and humidity they experienced over several days. From where they sit and work, most of their working hours registered as “dangerous.”

‘Techno-optimism’ may lead to reliance on unproven solutions at expense of societal changes needed

Multinational tea companies still occupy ancestral highlands of communities displaced during British colonial era

People with disabilities within the system face isolation as they struggle without supports to connect to their new communities

After a natural disaster, people with disabilities are more vulnerable to death, injury, and an inability to access help. In Nepal, people with disabilities who have survived the floods are facing a l...

From finding a safe route out to getting a wheelchair or a place in a shelter, survivors face barriers long after the waters recede.

Scientists say global heating was a destabilising factor in collapse of 200,000 sq metre glacier in August

A new breed of adventurer is chasing internet fame by targeting uncontacted peoples. Critics say they are risking the wellbeing of these remote communities – and their own lives

Dozens of NagaWorld casino union members gathered outside the establishment on Friday despite a legal action, urging the company and the government to end a ...

As climate change takes hold we need to prepare for the impact on roads, railways, animal welfare, our own health and wildfires

In Iceland, people commemorated its first glacier formally declared lost to climate change. Western culture needs more of these rituals

The potentially irreversible impacts of climate change will be experienced by our children and grandchildren

Climate crisis prompts calls for workplace temperature limits and rights to heat breaks and adjusted working hours

As France experiences its third heatwave since May, with temperatures rising up to 40ºC in some areas, Uber Eats and Deliveroo said they would impose breaks for food delivery cyclists, yet did not say...

The percentage share of total metered electricity consumption used by data centres rose to 23% in 2025 up from 22% in 2024 and just 5% in 2015.

Two-thirds of all land is used for farming that is subject to recurring income volatility

Past proposals for strict rules on renewable energy certificates have been dropped after heavy lobbying, draft shows

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Much of the debate around data centres has focused on electricity, but the gap in figures for their water use has started to draw more attention – and breed mistrust.

More than six in ten cleaning and security workers worldwide say extreme weather has made their work harder or more dangerous in the past three years, according to a major new survey published today b...

PHNOM PENH — By mid-morning, the concrete beneath Keo Yityan’s feet is already radiating heat. The 44-year-old construction worker spends long da...

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivers its Advisory Opinion on the Right to Strike under ILO Convention No. 87 on 21 May 2026.

From next-day delivery to resale apps like Vinted and Depop, clothing is moving through Ireland faster than ever. Inside the Vision Ireland warehouse, the scale of the country’s textile waste problem ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Authorities from Cambodia’s Ministry of Environment were dispatched to Mondul Yorn, a small village in the remote northeastern province of Ratanakiri, on Feb. 13 to conduct wate...

Environmental Journalism in Cambodia: Mapping the Landscape, Challenges, and Support Needs -

Government’s anti-slavery commissioner says traffickers are exploiting a growing pipeline of vulnerability Slavery in the UK is at record levels and is expected to worsen over the next decade, the government’s independent anti-slavery commissioner has warned. According to the number of referrals to the national referral mechanism, which assesses potential victims of slavery and provides support to victims, numbers have almost doubled in the last five years from 12,691 referrals in 2021 to 23,411 in 2025, the highest ever number. Continue reading...

A United Nations report warns of the urgent need to adapt farming and livestock practices in the face of increasingly frequent and intense episodes of extreme heat.

COLUMN. A complaint for human trafficking has been filed in Paris against the food delivery platforms Uber Eats and Deliveroo. This is a global first, observes Le Monde's Eric Albert in his column.

Lafarge fined more than €1m and its former boss jailed for paying nearly €5.6m to groups including Islamic State

Former UN climate chief to co-chair Lancet Commission examining how sea-level rise is reshaping health, wellbeing and inequality

Migrant Rights Centre Ireland (MRCI) has warned that there are "systemic and widespread" breaches of employment rights being experienced by migrant workers across Ireland.

Cases of ‘severe exploitation’ are ‘routine’ under general employment permit system, Migrant Rights Centre of Ireland says

Vanishing glaciers atop Germany's highest mountain prompted the start of demolition operations of a ski lift yesterday, as global warming reshapes the Alps.

Case is being taken against the energy regulator which gave go-ahead to new data centres last December

The world’s largest pension fund has revealed that it sold its shares in the Bolloré group, a powerful French conglomerate, due to unresolved concerns about “serious human rights violations” at a plan...

Rising temperatures making it hard even for young, healthy people to safely do normal physical tasks in many regions

Local communities fear that new investment projects in the northeast, including tourism and agro-industry, could revive land grabs. | Read more