At India’s oldest coalfield, Jharia, fires rage underground, bare trees stand guard morosely around mines spewing dust and fumes – and coal has provided work for at least four generations.
In Brazil’s state of São Paulo, one otherwise ordinary town is known for its extraordinary landfill facility – the largest in the country – which produces renewable energy alongside a stench that has riled citizens and councillors.
Of 5 million people in Mexico – 5% of the population aged 15 years or over – who identify as LGBTQ+, nearly a third report being mistreated at work or not receiving the same benefits as their non-LGBTQ+ colleagues, according to the 2022 national survey on sexual diversity.
About 400,000 welfare recipients in Australia were wrongly slapped with fines as the result of an automated debt recovery scheme, known as Robodebt, set up by the former conservative coalition government.
The founder of Russia’s only LGBTQ+ museum said he was forced to close its doors after President Vladimir Putin signed a law expanding restrictions against what lawmakers call “gay propaganda.”
What will 2023 bring? We asked top climate analysts and activists what they predict for the new year.
Campaigners say governments should make it mandatory for big businesses, including financial institutions, to disclose how their operations affect biodiversity.
Police in Mexico City raided seven call centers, seizing hundreds of phones, computers and SIM cards used for customer extortion. After the raids, the capital’s mayor Claudia Sheinbaum urged job seekers to shun the scam call centers, saying “it’s a crime to participate in any sort of extortion”.
The first woman to head an Australian intelligence agency said the glass ceiling for women’s career advancement was more like a “concrete block”, revealing even as a spy chief she had been asked to bring men coffee.
The preference for sons in India – seen as breadwinners who will carry on the family name – has led to the illegal abortion of millions of female foetuses. But evidence suggests that trend is changing.
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