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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.

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.

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

'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.

Indonesia's new ally on war against haze - tribespeople

Wildfires – Mar 22, 2017

A resident tries to put out a bush fire with a tree branch in Pekanbaru, Riau, Sumatra island, Indonesia August 23, 2016 in this photo taken by Antara Foto. Picture taken August 23, 2016.

Colombia's City of Women rebuilds homes and hopes

Women – Mar 27, 2017

(R to L) Maritza Marimon, Everlides Almanza and Ana Luz Ortega, members of the League of Displaced Women who built Colombia’s City of Women, have a meeting at the community centre in the Municipality of Turbaco, near the city of Cartagena in northern Colombia, February 13, 2017. TRF/Anastasia Moloney

Poor farmers - unlike rich - face uphill battle with Pakistan climate extremes

Farming – Mar 28, 2017

Farmer Moeez Assadullah clears weeds from his cauliflower field in Bakrani, a village a few miles from Larkana in southern Sindh province, Pakistan.

High-res mapping and locals join forces in India to restore deforested land

Forests – Mar 28, 2017

A man walks under a barricade pole installed to check passing vehicles by Indian forest officials at the remote district of Kandhamal in the eastern Indian state of Orissa in this 2012 archive photo.

In India, switching to vegetables, oranges and papaya could help save water - study

Food – Apr 4, 2017

A labourer carries a basket with papayas at a wholesale fruit and vegetable market in Mumbai, India, March 14, 2016.

The Preston model: UK takes lessons in recovery from rust-belt Cleveland

Finance – Apr 18, 2017

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