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

The effort is part of a global scientific trial to study how indoor heat impacts health and economic outcomes in developing ...

Baseco Compound, a shantytown of 50,000 people on the edge of Manila Bay, is the familiar face of poverty in villages and urban slums around the world. Yet there's also good news, albeit qualified ...

Population growth and insufficient housing have led to the development of informal settlements or slums on city outskirts around the world. Over one billion people live in these settlements ...

With an estimated 6.5 million people residing in these conditions, Mumbai has the largest slum population of any city in the world. This disparity is not unique to India. As cities around the ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) Poor people in vast city slums across the Global South are ... Mountains of plastic waste The world has produced more plastic in the past 20 years than the total ...

Poor people in vast city slums across the ... large populations across the world. We have gathered a collaborative, multidisciplinary team of researchers from around 35 countries – mostly ...