Hundreds of roofs in the informal settlements of India's western Gujarat state have been painted in a reflective, white ...

Flooding, sewage, destroyed houses, riddled with weapons. "I have been to conflict zones all over the world, slums in all kinds of countries in Africa and Latin America. This is the most desperate ...

Since then, for over seven decades now, the slum on the terrace of Karnani Estate has been home to families whose ancestors ...

Series in which a group of young people are put through their paces as they embark on a crash course in urban survival in some of the world's biggest slums.

Mountains of plastic waste The world has produced more plastic in the past 20 years ... Burning plastic waste for cooking and heating is becoming increasingly common in city slums. a–f, Photographs ...

The world has produced more plastic in the past ... A first step to overcoming the problem is understanding the reality of those living in slums. Policy-makers need to recognise these people ...

In the Vanzara Vas slum in the Narol area of the city ... whose roof was painted in January. Across the world, heatwaves that, prior to the industrial revolution, had a one-in-10 chance of occurring ...