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Green and safe, or dirty and dangerous? East Asia's cities grapple with growth

Population – Feb 7, 2017

Women harvest crops from a communal green area among high-rise apartments in Incheon, South Korea, Sept. 18, 2014.

From refugees to earthquakes, Istanbul ready for a reshape, say city planners

Urban planning – Apr 28, 2018

A ferry, with a new mosque under construction at Camlica hill in the background, sets sail in the Bosphorus in Istanbul, Turkey, July 31, 2017.

Urban nomads: Mongolian herders battle new future as they leave the land for the city

Climate change – May 3, 2018

Jugdur Samdan, a herder poses for a portrait in his winter camp in Arkhangai Province, Mongolia, February 3, 2018.

Brands flock to Spanish special needs designers with 'surreal' talents

Disabilities – May 10, 2018

Posters designed using the skills of employees with autism and Down Syndrome photographed in the offices of La Casa de Carlota advertising agency in Barcelona, Spain, on April 30, 2018.

World's urban growth will surge most in India, China and Nigeria - UN

Urban (re)development – May 16, 2018

A woman walks at the Bund in front of the financial district of Pudong in Shanghai March 5, 2015.

From camels to catfish, Algeria boosts fish farming in the Sahara desert

Farming – May 20, 2018

Camels on a 15-hectare farm co-owned by Milouda Mohammed and his brothers in Touggourt, a town in the Sahara, in southern Algeria, April 12, 2018.

Costa Rica's "Little Jamaica" coast struggles to ride out climate storm

Climate change – May 24, 2018

Araceli Huertas sits on the veranda of Spencer Seaside Lodging in Cahuita, on Costa Rica's Caribbean coast, May 11, 2018

London Zoo uses art to highlight plastic pollution scourge

Pollution – May 24, 2018

ZSL Marine project manager Fiona Llewellyn places the last bottle in the installation

Gender pay gap could cost world $160 trillion - World Bank

Gender equality – May 30, 2018

Chrifa Nimri, 69, fisherwoman, returns to her home after finishing work, at the seaport Sidi Bou Said, in Tunis, Tunisia February 23, 2017.

Desert city Phoenix mulls ways to quench thirst of sprawling suburbs

Water – Jun 7, 2018

A road abruptly ends next to a sign for a cattle ranch near Douglas, Arizona, United States, October 10, 2016.

Snake bites and chocolate: Costa Rican women teach tourists jungle secrets

Tourism – Jun 18, 2018

Melissa Espinoza Paez talks about medicinal plants at the Siwakabata agro-ecology farm in Talamanca, Costa Rica, May 10, 2018

Kuala Lumpur 'living library' bridges generation gap in aging Asia

Community engagement – Jun 25, 2018

Mah Meri elder Samah Seman, 80, sits at her door with her cat in the Mah Meri tribe village of Sungai Bumbun in Pulau Carey 140 km (87 miles) southwest Kuala Lumpur March 15, 2010.

10 facts about the world's population

Population – Jul 10, 2018

A volunteer posts pledges on the commitment wall during the observance of the World Population Day with the theme "investing on adolescent girls" at the Rizal memorial stadium in metro Manila, Philippines July 11, 2016.

'Everything we’ve heard about global urbanization turns out to be wrong' - researchers

Urban (re)development – Jul 12, 2018

Devotees form a human pyramid to celebrate the festival of Janmashtami, marking the birth anniversary of Hindu Lord Krishna, in Mumbai, India August 25, 2016.

Microfinance could help African cities solve housing crisis - experts

Housing – Jul 12, 2018

A resident reacts as he attempts to extinguish a fire that broke out at the Kijiji slums in the Southlands estate of Nairobi, Kenya, January 28, 2018.

Can WhatsApp and motorbikes protect Africa's food security?

Food – Jul 13, 2018

A Burundian man transports a passenger and two pigs to markets in the capital Bujumbura July 19, 2015.

Opinion - I have pledged to save our islands, our oceans, our future. Will you join me?

Islands – Jul 23, 2018

An aerial view of the Republic of Palau in the western Pacific Ocean, July 19, 2018

Are the Caribbean's wealthy new citizens a lifeline or a liability?

Caribbean – Jul 19, 2018

People lounge at Mount Cinnamon Resort's beach club on Grand Anse beach in St. George's, the capital of the Caribbean island nation of Grenada, June 1, 2018.

As Seattle gentrifies, black residents no longer feel welcome

Urban (re)development – Jul 22, 2018

Seattle Black Panthers Party co-founder Elmer Dixon poses for a photograph in front of a commemorative mural, April 27, 2018.

With drones and satellites, India gets to know its slums

Informal housing – Jul 24, 2018

Residents gather around a mobile museum displayed on an improvised handcart in Dharavi, one of Asia's largest slums, in Mumbai, India, February 18, 2016.