Animal-human interactions are on the rise in wild-urban zones. Yale scientists are concerned about the implications of ...

This structure in Africa went from tallest building in the southern hemisphere to tallest slum in the world in just a few ...

Burning plastic as fuel for cooking and heating releases toxic chemicals into the air and contaminates food. Yet this is ...

The Brazilian firm is reinventing last-mile logistics by bridging the gap between favelas and e-commerce with local knowledge ...

Some idea of the complexity of this problem may be gathered from the fact that in New York at least sixty thousand people are living in houses about to be demolished for public and private slum ...

Living in slum conditions led to poor health and in 1950 Glasgow had the highest mortality rate from tuberculosis in Europe. In 1951 more than half of Glasgow households lived in one- or two ...

The mass of shanties on the sixth floor of a landmark is no Tower of David, the skyscraper that Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez gave ...

Roads are built through slum areas; water pipelines are laid out or boreholes drilled; even “last mile” power lines are sometimes built; and yet the population of Kenyans living in slums ...

POOR people in vast city slums across the Global South are burning plastic to cook their food, warm their homes and boil ...

As a consequence, these slums became the breeding ground for disease, crime and poverty. Public housing schemes provided by the local authority were initially encouraged by the Housing of the ...