The first time Makur Majeng posted photos on social media of trash-clogged drainage ditches along the White Nile in Juba, the capital of South Sudan, his phone would not stop buzzing. “How can I help?

From the top of Zürichberg hill, the panorama reveals a city wrapped by lake and forest but insulated in a basin where heat collects. On hot summer days, the center of Zürich, Switzerland’s largest ...

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All over the city of Marrakesh, football fever had taken hold. Africa’s continent-wide soccer competition, AFCON, was being hosted in Morocco. And here, at the Amal Targa Center, a fan zone had been ...

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A country with one of the biggest gender gaps in the world is eating away at inequality through culinary training.

These days, when it rains heavily in the southeast Houston neighborhood of Clear Lake, residents can rest easy. But that wasn’t always the case. It used to be that when it rained, they’d haul out ...

Just off the bustling Rue Montorgueil, one of the most commercial streets in Paris, the Centre Cerise, or Cherry Sociocultural Center, is a haven of local community. At the cafe in the back, where the ...

Walking into Brightworks could be a shock for helicopter parents — there are no rows of desks, no hallway passes and no bells to jolt students from one class to the next. Instead, the K-12 school is ...

This article was originally published by Ensia. The Osa Peninsula on Costa Rica’s west coast occupies just 0.001 percent of the planet’s surface area, yet is home to an estimated 2.5 percent of all ...

The 40-ton gray whale stretches her massive head out of the murky water next to our small boat so that we can bend over the railing and pet her chin. She opens her mouth so we can scratch her tongue, ...

When Stockholm’s Traffic Office conducted a general assessment of street traffic in the Swedish capital in 2001, it came to the shocking conclusion that two-thirds of all trees in the city center were ...