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For street kids in space-starved Indian city, school is in a container

Education – Feb 6, 2017

Students at their lessons in the Container School in the western Indian city of Thane on Jan. 19, 2017.

In India, ice towers could turn deadly lake into water bank

Floods – Feb 6, 2017

Buddhist prayer flags drape an ice stupa in Ladakh, India.

Can going green help pick the slavery out of cotton?

Supply chain – Feb 10, 2017

Woman farmer Kanchen Kanjarya participates in a training session in Mayapur village in the Indian state of Gujarat on Feb. 1, 2017, to learn about the best ways to pick cotton as part of an initiative to boost farmers’ income and tackle child and forced labour in the cotton industry.

Young Indian farmers spice up market for organic Himalayan crops

Agriculture – Feb 13, 2017

A farmer tends to his organic vegetable plot in the Himalayan state of Sikkim, India

Shifting weather in Pakistan forces changes in school holidays

Education – Feb 13, 2017

Girls hold hands on their way to school in Islamabad, Pakistan.

Cheap solar ambulances to speed into service in rural Bangladesh

Transport – Feb 14, 2017

A view of a prototype solar-powered ambulance in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Investing in disaster resilience now 'mission critical' for business

Disaster prevention – Feb 16, 2017

A man uses a broom to clean up mud and water from extensive flooding in a laundromat after Superstorm Sandy in the Coney Island neighborhood of New York

Cartoons and calendars help Bolivian farmers dampen fire risk

Wildfires – Feb 20, 2017

Silvana Martinez, from Talcamavida town in Chile's central-south region, inspects a burnt harvest of oats and potatoes inside a destroyed storehouse after wildfires

Risk Finance for the Developing World

Event

Aug 14, 2018

12:01 UTC

London, United Kingdom

UCL Finance Event

The billionaire philanthropists intent on using satellites to save the world

Data analysis – Feb 27, 2017

Satellite antennas are pictured at the technical center of Signalhorn company in Leuk, Switzerland, in this 2016 archive photo.

Rights over leaves, flowers give Indian tribal groups more reason to stay put

Business – Feb 28, 2017

Women labourers make bidis (shredded tobacco hand-rolled in tendu leaves) in Baliyamuni village, about 190 km (118 miles) south from the northeastern city of Siliguri in this 2008 archive photo.

BLOG: How do economies bounce back after a disaster?

Business – Mar 1, 2017

Woman carrying water in Woukpokpoe village, Benin.

Smarter spending could tackle disasters in Uganda before they happen

Aid – Mar 3, 2017

People displaced by floods walk with their belongings in Kilembe, in Kasese district, Uganda

Age no bar: Indian grandmothers go to school for first time

Education – Mar 6, 2017

Sheetal Prakash More, a 30-year-old teacher, teaches at Aajibaichi Shaala (Grandmothers' School) in Fangane village, India, February 15, 2017.

Indian village beats drought, one raindrop at a time

Water – Mar 7, 2017

Ansar Shaikh, a local guide, shows the trenches dug on hill contours at Ralegan Siddhi, a small village in the western state of Maharashtra that has remained water sufficient for nearly four decades

FCL Lunch Talk: 100 Resilient Cities: The Future of Resilience

Event

Aug 19, 2018

18:31 UTC

Singapore

Staying safe from disasters pays, but will funders listen?

Disaster prevention – Mar 13, 2017

Volunteers from the group lowernine.org work on a gate for a house that was badly damaged by Hurricane Katrina five years earlier, in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans

From spring’s start to sea heat, data tells tale of climate action

Data analysis – Mar 14, 2017

In this 2012 file photo, a yellowhammer bird sits on a tree branch in a forest near the village of Skarodnoe, southwest of Minsk.

'Billion tree tsunami' surges across northern Pakistan

Forests – Mar 16, 2017

Former cricketer Imran Khan tours a tree nursery in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

Mexico meeting to bring world together on disaster prevention

Disaster prevention – Mar 17, 2017

Two women sit on the remains of a wall destroyed by Hurricane Matthew at the National School in Damassins, Haiti