Development

A tiger crosses a road in India’s Ranthambore National Park.
Environment
GPS tracking could help tigers and traffic coexist across Asia
A crowd of people rushing in a subway station
Immigration
What 1 billion Americans would mean for the US
Satellite Beach has rejected the anything-goes approach of much of Florida, and the city wants its new boutique hotel to be a model for environmentally responsible development. But is even one new building in this region one too many?
Development
This new green building may be just the thing to help a Florida town stand up to climate change. Or not.
baby
Development
The science behind ‘baby talk’
chickens
Science
Journalist Maryn McKenna on the rise of ‘Big Chicken’ — and our current antibiotic crisis
Portrait of man sitting on sofa
Economics
For refugees in Seattle, rising rents mean the search for home isn’t over
Man standing on stage looking out at crowd, photographed from behind
Development
How two Minnesotans turned their online popularity into big money for famine aid
Environment
Myanmar’s Inle Lake is just one small body of water, but this man is dedicating his life to saving it
Port Salut
Justice
A once-dreamy Haitian beach town picks up the pieces after Hurricane Matthew
Sammy Kang’ete, an intern from Kenya
Development
Small farmers from around the world learn how they can grow far more food
The RefettoRio team of chef in action in Rio.
Development
Gourmet chefs use Olympic seconds to cook up free meals for Rio’s poorest
Health
The grip of HIV and tuberculosis in South Africa: Portraits of survivors and those who are gone
Children climb on a construction near a gravestone in the playground of the Sophienkirche day-care center in Berlin, Germany. The day-care is located on the grounds of the Sophienkirche church, and it’s playground occupies a space that was once the parish
Culture
Berlin’s graveyards are being converted for use by the living
Children climb on a construction near a gravestone in the playground of the Sophienkirche day-care center in Berlin, Germany. The day-care is located on the grounds of the Sophienkirche church, and it’s playground occupies a space that was once the parish
Culture
Berlin’s graveyards are being converted for use by the living
Virunga rangers illegal fishing
Development
What it’s like to be married to the men doing ‘the most dangerous conservation job in the world’
Girls sit inside the Life Line Trust orphanage in Salem in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu on June 20, 2013.
Development
In India, access to toilets remains a huge problem — worst of all for women and girls
A US shipment of peanuts to Haiti
Development
The US wants to give peanuts to malnourished Haitian kids. Why is that a problem?
Luis Ceze, the University of Washington Torode Family Career Development Professor of Computer Science & Engineering, and research scientist Lee Organick
Science
Is DNA the future of digital data storage?
24-year-old Prapti Tamang's two-story house was destroyed during the 2015 earthquake.
Development
Portraits from Nepal: Survivors struggle to rebuild a year after the deadly quake
Thai soldier keeping watch at Erawan Shrine in central Bangkok.
Economics
Southeast Asia hopes a new common market will give it clout, but it may have a weak link in Thailand
Japanese schoolchildren in Tokyo
Culture
What China could learn from Japan’s experience
Residents at Naruna Estates say they're being forced out of their homes in an echo of an apartheid-era policy. The government says not at all -- they're just not paying their rent.
Development
Some South Africans facing eviction say it feels like an apartheid-era policy
Brooklyn Bridge
Development
If the US wants to fix its infrastructure problem, it’ll have to cut through the red tape
Malecon at sunrise
Business
Slowly, Cuban entrepreneurs are seizing opportunities to work for themselves
Garage door parts repurposed as a gate
Culture
Discarded American material finds a new life south of the border — and as an inspiration for art
Gleide Guimarães
Environment
The bigger problems behind Brazil’s recent disease outbreaks
Joise Lopes, a farmer, says selling her produce directly to school meals programs has made a big difference in her income. “Oh god, this money is so good and it came at the right time,” she says.
Development
Brazil’s school lunch program is putting food on the table for the country’s small farmers
Migrant children board a bus outside the Notre Dame de Lourdes School in Anse-a-Pitres, Haiti, to return to their shelters after morning classes.
Education
Here’s a Haitian school struggling to absorb desperate migrants
Manolis Tzanetos serves thousands of meals a day to refugees arriving on the Greek island of Lesbos.
Development
Meet the man feeding thousands of refugees a day
Syrian playmates lay along the street after arriving with their family. Chancellor Angela Merkel was criticized and praised over her management of the refugee crisis. Germany is taking in more migrants than any other EU state.
Development
How one German town copes with its migrants
Health workers rest outside a quarantine zone at a Red Cross facility in the town of Koidu, Kono district in Eastern Sierra Leone December 19, 2014. Sierra Leone, neighbouring Guinea and Liberia was at the heart of the world's worst recorded outbreak of E
Health
The day so many Guineans were waiting for is finally here
The Eiffel tower illuminated at night
Environment
When analyzing the Paris climate talks, how you see it is a matter of perspective
Shahar Caspi tends to peppers and other vegetables at his small community-supported farm in California's Sierra Nevada foothills. The Israeli transplant uses water-efficient farming methods he learned working the arid land back home.
Environment
More pigs, less water: One Israeli transplant charts a course for drought-stricken California
Saudi woman Fawzia al-Harbi, a candidate for local municipal council elections, uses her laptop at a shopping mall in Riyadh November 29, 2015.
Development
A first: women voting and running in local Saudi elections. Is it real or cosmetic change?
Xi Jinping in South Africa
Economics
China’s leader brings a message of cooperation to Africa
Terror in California, Fighting Boko Haram, Gene Editing
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This Pakistani woman lives in extreme poverty; 60 percent of Pakistanis live on less than $2 per person per day.
Development
Can extreme global poverty end in this century? Here’s why it looks promising
Children holding plates wait in a queue to receive food at an orphanage run by a non-governmental organisation in the southern Indian city of Chennai.
Finance
Before you write out checks on Giving Tuesday, consider this
A migrant holds a barbed wire fence at the Macedonian-Greek border, near Gevgelija, Macedonia, November 29, 2015.
Development
‘Borders are alive and well — but for a price you can flatten them’
Carving a turducken.
Food
She got her turkey and turducken in South Africa, but then the power went out
Residents observe as policemen take up position near an area where two men were found dead on top of the Sao Carlos slums complex in Rio de Janeiro May 15, 2015.
Justice
Rio de Janeiro’s pacification program slips back to tactics from its bloody ‘War on Drugs’
Bogotá has taken a number of design steps to slow cars down and keep them separate from pedestrians and cyclists.
Economics
Is being safer than Atlanta good enough for Bogotá?
Visually impaired student
Science
These scientists say they’ve found a cure for a type of congenital blindness
Four years after a forced eviction from ancestral land, the father of 9 year old Revan Pragustiawan says his son is traumatized and afraid to meet people.
Development
In the disappearing rainforests of Indonesia, a 9-year-old boy copes with the trauma of eviction
India solar power
Environment
Solar power is booming in India. But will it reach those who need it most?
The Old Dominion landfill in Virginia. Photo by Bill McChesney/flickr/CC BY 2.0
Environment
Americans throw out way more trash than we previously thought
London's Cereal Killer Cafe was targeted as a symbol of gentrification
Conflict
Anti-hipster protest in London targets breakfast cereal cafe
Elizabeth Williams and Ashley Judd
Development
Ashley Judd to girls worldwide: We go from hurting to healing to helping
The coastal Japanese city of Ishinomaki, before the Tsunami... and today.
Development
In search of an owner… our reporter tracks down a Japanese diver nearly devastated by the 2011 tsunami
Lifestyle
#WhyLoiter reclaims public — and inner — space for Indian women
An open sewer in Kenya
Environment
In sub-Saharan Africa, entrepreneurs explore whether sanitation could solve a growing fuel crisis — and vice versa
anne insta marco airport
Development
On the ground in Mumbai with Across Women’s Lives: Escaping the chaos
Children rehearse
Development
Since 2000, improved child mortality rates mean 48 million children under 5 have been saved
A Syrian refugee from Aleppo holds his one month old daughter moments after arriving on a dinghy on the Greek island of Lesbos
Global Politics
How to help Syrian refugees? These groups you may not know are doing important work
Bungalows in Inman Park, Atlanta
Economics
Don’t blame ‘evil hipsters.’ Broader forces caused gentrification.
Masahiko Kakutani is now the main grower or farmer behind ‘Tokyo Salad,’ the Tokyo Metro’s new farming enterprise, which is housed underneath the Tozai Line.
Food
If you run out of space for farming, look to the subway
A health worker injects a woman with an Ebola vaccine during a trial in Liberia
Health
Experimental Ebola vaccine is ‘highly efficacious and safe’ — but late
South Sudan refugees
Conflict
South Sudan’s festering civil war is every bit as violent and deadly as decades of independence struggles
Dr. Gary Slutkin and Autry Phillips. Slutkin says when it comes to gun violence, he doesn't like the terms perpetrator and victim.
Conflict
Can we decrease gun violence by treating it like an infectious disease? Signs point to yes
Colorado River
Environment
The Colorado River is crucial to the West’s water supply — and harnessing it was a feat