A few weeks ago, in the scorching summer heat of New Delhi, my friends and I stood knee-deep in a garbage dump, diligently sorting through a big mound of waste. Stifling our gag reflexes and struggling to keep our lunches down,...
As part of the Tomorrow’s Cities season the BBC is looking at how our lives will be changed by technology in the future. Delivery drones, farmscrapers and robo-taxis, is this what our future world looks like? Experts pred...
Not a lot of people have ever heard of Taiji, a small town nestled in the Southern-Central region of Honshu, Japan. The name certainly does not cross the minds of a lot of people who take their kids to watch funny flippered ani...
A revolution of its own kind began in the Philippines in April 2011. In homes in Manila’s poorest district, there was no way of telling whether it was day or night.Despite the sun shining in all its glory outside, the sma...
Manila is in a pollution crisis. Currently home to 12 million people it is no surprise that the countries infrastructure is struggling to keep up with the population boom. This dense sprawling urban environment forces much of ...
Protesters gather outside a Governors Climate and Forest Task Force (GCF) meeting in Chiapas lamenting against the UN programme to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing counties (REDD). Chant...
The earthquake of 2010 devastated Haiti – since then it has perpetually struggled to re-build itself and for those that have chosen to keep an eye on this impoverished Island we have seen few success stories. Corruption,...
Jharia lies in India’s eastern state of Jharkhand and is India’s largest coal mining region supplying 67% of India’s electricity. For more than eighty years now fires have been burning underground on its coal ...
Our poles remain the only two parts of our planet unexploited by man, but the growing interest in oil and rich fishing grounds in the Arctic is leading to a free for all as nearby powerful nations scramble to declare the territ...