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

India's Supreme Court on Friday asked billionaire Gautam Adani's conglomerate to respond to allegations of unfairly winning a ...

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

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 ...

Real estate’s transformation from necessity to speculative asset accelerated after World War II. Within decades, everything ...

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 ...

A new book shows how residents of wealthier nations are jeopardizing the health and safety of other parts of the planet.

The late Hugo Chavez as President of Venezuela encouraged slum-dwellers in the capital city of Caracas to occupy the Tower of David, a 45-storey skyscraper, turning it into presumably the world’s ...